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Re: cygwin hang problem
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 06:37:16PM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
>(I modified handle_exceptions to wait for dumper to do the dump):
Why did you feel that you had to modify handle_exceptions to wait for
dumper? Since dumper is invoked as a debugger, and your backtrace
showed that try_to_debug was invoked with waitloop == true, this code
should have been exercised:
if (!waitloop)
return 1; // wouldn't have hit here
SetThreadPriority (hMainThread, THREAD_PRIORITY_IDLE);
while (!being_debugged ())
/* spin */;
As soon as the process is debugged, it should be stopped. If it isn't
immediately stopped, then the Sleep (4000) should catch it. I've never
seen a case where gdb was invoked (I don't use dumper, I just have gdb
pop up a process) where the process being debugged wasn't stopped in
try_to_debug.
So, there should be no need to modify anything to wait for anything,
AFAICT. If there is such a need, there is a bug that needs to be fixed.
cgf