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Re: RFC: A mode in which gdb avoids libthread_db

From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
Cc: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 22:20:56 -0400
Subject: Re: RFC: A mode in which gdb avoids libthread_db
References: <20030726155820.GA1063@nevyn.them.org> <16163.4264.817155.564263@localhost.redhat.com> <20030726233201.GA13936@nevyn.them.org>

On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 07:37:12PM -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote:

I know first hand of the pains of mismatched glibcs, binutils,
kernels, gdbs.  I wouldn't mind having this coexist with the use of
glibc, is that possible?

Sure. It could just be a switch or a "set" flag - easy enough.

Yes. In this mode, just restrict libthread_db to, er, visualizing thread data structures such as the thread ID and, hopefully, eventually, semaphore state et.al.

What ptrace changes did you do? (Elena needs to start reading
linux-kernel)

Take a look at the support for "set follow-fork-mode", which I've
posted a few times.  I added:

Andrew

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