Context Around a year and a half ago, I’ve asked my former company for some time to work on an issue that was impacting the debugging capabilities in our project: gdbserver couldn’t debug multithreaded applications running on a PowerPC32 architecture. The connection to the gdbserver was broken and it couldn’t control the debug session anymore. Multiple people have already investigated this problem and I had a good starting point, but we still weren’t sure in which software component the issue lied: it could have been the toolchain, the gdbserver, the Linux kernel or the custom patches we applied on top of the kernel tree. We were quite far away from finding the root cause.
  • kairos@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Here is the original patch I sent to the Linux kernel security team: https://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg221962.html

    • cmeerw@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      So you have just re-posted an old email to the mailing list just so you can link to it, likely confusing everyone on that mailing list.

      • kairos@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        Yes, so people could see my original submission. Then I've explained the purpose of the forward when asked, I don't see any problem with that.