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Re: [RFC] win32-nat.c 'set new-console' and interruption

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:41:26PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
>Another option is to use SuspendThread on all threads to stop the
>process, which is what I believe Visual Studio uses.  gdbserver has
>that implemented for systems that don't have DebugBreakProcess.

It may be ok in Windows XP and beyond (I haven't checked) but I don't
believe you can reliably use SuspendThread otherwise.  If you suspend a
thread at the wrong point you can cause problems.

cgf
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