Author: bdrewery
Date: Thu Nov 17 23:16:56 2016
New Revision: 308788
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/308788

Log:
  Cleanup some leftovers from '-s' removal in r302792.
  
  MFC after:    2 weeks
  Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon

Modified:
  head/usr.bin/gcore/gcore.c

Modified: head/usr.bin/gcore/gcore.c
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/gcore/gcore.c  Thu Nov 17 23:05:34 2016        (r308787)
+++ head/usr.bin/gcore/gcore.c  Thu Nov 17 23:16:56 2016        (r308788)
@@ -143,21 +143,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
        fd = open(corefile, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, DEFFILEMODE);
        if (fd < 0)
                err(1, "%s", corefile);
-       /*
-        * The semantics of the 's' flag is to stop the target process.
-        * Previous versions of gcore would manage this by trapping SIGHUP,
-        * SIGINT and SIGTERM (to be passed to the target pid), and then
-        * signal the child to stop.
-        *
-        * However, this messes up if the selected dumper uses ptrace calls
-        * that leave the child already stopped. The waitpid call in elfcore
-        * never returns.
-        *
-        * The best thing to do here is to externalize the 's' flag and let
-        * each dumper dispose of what that means, if anything. For the elfcore
-        * dumper, the 's' flag is a no-op since the ptrace attach stops the
-        * process in question already.
-        */
 
        dumper->dump(efd, fd, pid);
        (void)close(fd);
@@ -169,6 +154,6 @@ void
 usage(void)
 {
 
-       (void)fprintf(stderr, "usage: gcore [-s] [-c core] [executable] pid\n");
+       (void)fprintf(stderr, "usage: gcore [-c core] [executable] pid\n");
        exit(1);
 }
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