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Re: [RFA] Implement thread death notification.
- From: Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>
- To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: "gdb-patches at sources"@redhat.com
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:02:38 +1200
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Implement thread death notification.
> We now have the 'thread-created' MI notification. This patch adds a
> 'thread-exited' notification to match. Are non-MI bits of this
> patch OK?
When I suggested this previously, we said:
> > I'm not sure what you mean. If I run Gdb normally with a multi-threaded
> > application, I get:
> >
> > [New Thread -1210639472 (LWP 7235)]
> >
> > when a thread is created and:
> >
> > [Thread -1210639472 (LWP 7235) exited]
> >
> > when it is terminated.
>
> At which point, and where in code is that message printed? It is
> printed by linux-thread-db.c:detach_thread, so it's not good for
> generic code. And generic code will hold on to thread until
> "info thread". It's not very good if you need to issue "info thread"
> to get notifications about exited thread.
>
> So, thread.c and its interaction with linux-thread-db.c have to
> be fixed.
Does it mean that this has now been fixed?
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