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Re: threads and the new NPTL thread library
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 16:20:07 -0500
- Subject: Re: threads and the new NPTL thread library
- References: <15844.13917.307515.296874@localhost.redhat.com>
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:05:01PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
>
>
> I think people are aware of a new thread library that Uli Drepper
> are Roland McGrath are working on.
> Detailed information is on the phil-list@redhat.com mailing list.
> I see a few familiar names there.
>
>
> Gdb doesn't currently work with the new nptl_db. :-(
> Has anybody played with this yet?
Not really... I've been poking at the necessary kernel support for
some of the features and couldn't decide what to do.
For instance, trace what happens via ptrace/wait if a threaded program
exec's. Threads can just disappear unexpectedly instead of exiting
cleanly.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer