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Re: zombie threads after gdb
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 10:16:37PM -0300, horape@tinuviel.compendium.net.ar wrote:
> > Hola!
> >
> > > > I'm working in a heavy multithreaded program, and after running it under gdb,
> > > > any threaded program that i run is unable of joining threads.
> >
> > > > It seems that is a known problem (i've found several references to it
> > > > googling), but i couldn't find any solution or workaround.
> >
> > > > I'm running linux 2.4.18.
> >
> > > The patch was posted to this list about a year ago, by Mark Kettenis.
> > > It never made it into the kernel.
> >
> > I've applied (by hand) the patch available at http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-glibc/2000-12/msg00057.html
> > to linux 2.4.18 with no luck.
> >
> > Some idea on what could i do?
>
> Then you have a different problem. Make a testcase and report it to
> the linux-kernel list.
Well, the description that goes with the patch cited above does
mentioned that Linux 2.4 kernels are even more broken, and that the
patch doesn't work for those.
Mark