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Re: [PATCH RFC] linux threads: prevent starvation
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] linux threads: prevent starvation
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:48:19 -0400
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl
- References: <3B26BCE9.AA6731EC@cygnus.com>
> OK, this deserves some explanation.
>
> Problem: Debugging with GDB can cause some threads to starve
> in a multi-threaded Linux program.
Michael, to be honest, I think this deserves an accademic paper! To
discover and demonstrate that GDB can cause thread starvation is is a
pretty amasing thing.
Even if you don't want to go as far as a paper, we can probably add this
to the collection of GDB papers on the web.
Andrew