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Re: Cannot find new threads: generic error

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>
Cc: Laurent Carlier <lordheavym at gmail dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:02:24 -0400
Subject: Re: Cannot find new threads: generic error
References: <200808281553.37056.lordheavym@gmail.com> <200808300213.57239.lordheavym@gmail.com> <8ac60eac0808291743i67ed9872wca32b21389e48dd3@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 05:43:38PM -0700, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> If you do that on Linux, you should expect all kinds of trouble,
> because e.g. glibc very early on decides whether pthreads are
> present, and permanently switches to thread-unsafe behavior if they
> are not.

I'm pretty sure that's not correct.  It checks at each runtime spot,
not initialization time - a lot of the complexity in glibc is to
support this.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

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