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Re: [RFC]: fix for recycled thread ids
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:35:40PM -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> >Conceptually, we attach to LWPs, not to threads. That suggests to me
> >that the correct fix is to ask the LWP layer if the LWP is attached
> >rather than looking it up in the thread list in the first place.
> >We've already got an appropriate list of LWPs though we might need a
> >new accessor.
> >
>
> I like that idea. We still have to deal with the bogus thread list entry.
> The routine prune_threads calls thread_db_alive and it won't realize the
> thread info it has is bogus because it will find the tid is valid.
Do you think this will be a problem? My hope is that it will just look
as if the thread has 'migrated' to a new LWP.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer