RFA: test GDB's ability to kill threaded programs that die messily

[Jim Blandy]

Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com> writes:
> Jim Blandy wrote:
> > 
> > This tests the bug reported in gdb/568.
> > 
> > 2002-06-12  Jim Blandy  <jimb@redhat.com>
> > 
> >         * gdb.threads/killed.exp, gdb.threads/killed.c: New test.
> 
> Why run it only on linux?  It might pass perfectly well on other
> systems -- and if not, it's a bug there too, which we might want
> to know.

Definitely.  I thought the link process (-lpthread) was linux-only.
Can we write portable code in the test suite that builds
multi-threaded programs?