[PATCH] Add a note for how to get the list of threads

Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Tue Oct 22 23:19:00 GMT 2019


It's not immediately obvious how to get the list of threads,
so add a note about that in the "Threads in Python" section.

gdb/doc/ChangeLog:

2019-10-22  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>

	* python.texi (Threads In Python): Add a note for how to get the
	list of threads.

Change-Id: I0fef8a7aff161fc347c09052319048c907a6e8c3
---
 gdb/doc/python.texi | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/doc/python.texi b/gdb/doc/python.texi
index 48adad4e97..a5bc162139 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/python.texi
+++ b/gdb/doc/python.texi
@@ -3293,6 +3293,9 @@ This function returns the thread object for the selected thread.  If there
 is no selected thread, this will return @code{None}.
 @end defun
 
+To get the list of threads for an inferior, use the @code{Inferior.threads()}
+method. @xref{Inferiors In Python}
+
 A @code{gdb.InferiorThread} object has the following attributes:
 
 @defvar InferiorThread.name
-- 
2.24.0.rc0.303.g954a862665-goog



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