libkvm: consumers of kvm_getprocs for non-live kernels?

Dimitry Andric dim at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 10 20:50:05 UTC 2010


On 2010-11-10 21:41, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> But, the kgdb file gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/kvm-fbsd.c, where
> kvm_getprocs is probably called on a dead kernel is not even used during
> build!
>
> So I guess I'm staring at dead code here, any kvm people around that can
> clue me in?

In gnu/usr.bin/binutils, the gasp, gdb and gdbreplay directories have
been disconnected from the build for years now.  I plan on garbage
collecting them when merging the binutils-2.17 project branch (where
they are already removed).



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