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Re: BUG: GDB >=6 vfork from pthread fails with 2.6 vanilla kernels


On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:12:42AM -0500, Jonathan A. George wrote:
> BUG: GDB >=6 vfork from pthread fails with 2.6 vanilla kernels
> 
> Very simple to duplicate:
> Run popen() from within a pthread_create() thread while sleeping in the 
> base process.
> 
> (NOTE: works perfectly outside of GDB and under GDB with 2.4 kernel 
> pthreads)
> 
> Environment:
> Any 2.6 series kernel (tested 2.6.0 - 2.6.6 vanilla kernel.org)
> Any GDB (tested 6.0 - current CVS)
> Any GCC linked with -lpthread (tested 3.0.4 - 3.3.3)
> 
> GDB output from test program:
> Detaching after fork from child process 7020.
> warning: Unexpected waitpid result 00117f when waiting for vfork-done
> linux-nat.c:450: internal-error: unknown ptrace event 5
> A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
> further debugging may prove unreliable.
> Quit this debugging session? (y or n)
> 
> Observations:
> It seems as if GDB in linux-nat.c is trying to associate the vfork()d 
> popen()d process with the root process instead of the parenting thread 
> started by the root process.

Did you really try current CVS?  I checked in a fix for this a couple
of weeks ago.

If it still doesn't work, please post a test case.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz


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