[RFA] Don't use thread_db on corefiles

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Fri Dec 14 18:25:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:12:36PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 05:10:04PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> >
> >>Hold on -- I think we're having too many conversations at once.
> >>The kernel doesn't know anything about glibc threads, which are
> >>the only threads that thread-db is concerned with.
> >
> >
> >Oversimplification there on my part.  At the moment, LinuxThreads is
> >the only package we've been asked to support for Linux thread
> >debugging; and for the at least short-term foreseeable future, it uses
> >a one-thread/one-kernel-task model.  Thus the kernel has everything I
> >need to debug them.
> 
> 
> We?  Just to clarify something is that a royal wee?

Sorry, that's a corporate we.  I'm working on this for a customer
contract.

Just about equally shortsighted of a we, though.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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