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Re: "Cannot find new threads" on Fedora 9, but not on CentOS 5 (?)
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>, ajloft at umich dot edu, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:03:46 -0500
- Subject: Re: "Cannot find new threads" on Fedora 9, but not on CentOS 5 (?)
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:49:37PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Paul> The problem is a (now almost 3 year old) bug in glibc:
> Paul> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2328
> Paul> for which a patch has been available for 2 years, but came
> Paul> from the "wrong" person :-(
>
> Paul> I don't know what it takes to make Uli apply the patch to fix this :(
> Paul> Perhaps Tom can have a friendly chat with him?
>
> Tom> I will ask about it and get back to you.
>
> Sorry for the long delay on this.
>
> My summary of the discussion is that someone will have to dig into the
> problem in depth. My understanding is that Ulrich does not like that
> patch. But, neither of us knows enough about this part of gdb to say
> what it may be doing wrong.
I don't suppose you can be any more specific? I agree that the
dl-load.c bit is ugly, but at least the other portion seems clearly
correct and I don't understand how the fault token shifted back to
GDB.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery