RFA [threads]: Fix print-threads.exp

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 04:02:15PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> As you could tell from earlier messages, this bug is somewhat gross...
> 
> Basically, at one point in the process of exiting a thread (in LinuxThreads,
> this is) sets its own p_terminated flag.  After that, libthread_db reports
> it as a zombie and refuses to do certain things with it.  But the LWP is
> really still there, and we still need to handle it, even if the "thread" is
> logically gone.
> 
> The reason print-threads.exp triggered this problem is because of a
> breakpoint on kill (); kill is used in the thread's exit path.  I think
> breakpointing kill is a reasonable thing to do, so I'd like this to work.
> 
> The only thing we can do is detect this case [if map_id2thr calls, we
> iterate over threads looking for zombies], and handle that thread like an
> LWP instead of querying libthread_db about it.  This works just fine, and
> fixes print-threads.exp.  It also fixes schedlock.exp in my last couple of
> tests, but I'm betting that's just random.  I'll get back to making
> schedlock.exp less flaky next week.
> 
> Is this OK?  Does anyone have any better ideas?  Yes, I imagine I could fix
> this more easily by fixing the system's threads library, but for obvious
> reasons I'd rather GDB coped.

This patch is withdrawn.  As per Mark's suggestion, I'm going to start
using TD_DEATH instead.  That should make this much easier, although
not necessarily less gross.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer