[RFC] Crash sourcing Python script on Windows
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Mon Oct 3 20:05:00 GMT 2011
>>>>> "John" == John Spencer <maillist-gdbpatches@barfooze.de> writes:
John> FILE is supposed to be an opaque type and as such noone except of the
John> libc which defines it is supposed to "poke" at its internals.
Which is exactly what GDB does.
John> however it is common practice in GNU software to assume everybody uses
John> GLIBC and poke around in internal stuff thats not supposed to be
John> accessibly at all in userland. another example of such illegal
John> behaviour is libevent, which does illegal things with fd_set internals
John> to allow more than FD_SETSIZE file descriptors to be used with
John> select().
I don't even know what libevent is. It isn't part of gdb.
I'm guessing you are referring back to the libthread_db discussion.
If so, please separate the streams. Thanks.
Tom
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