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[Bruce Korb]

Chris Hamilton wrote:
> 
> Bruce,
> I came across your September 24th posting about gdb throwing off a
> "Cannot find thread 2049" when it hits a popen
> (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/insight/2002-q3/msg00185.html).
> I'm currently experiencing the same problem in my application, and I was
> wondering if you had any advice on how to solve it.

printf debugging, I guess.  Essentially, the problem boils down
to there not being a good implementation of multithreaded
process management for GDB on i386.  If you are running UnixWare,
then Debug works great.  Otherwise, you might try a supported
multithread platform (Solaris on Sparc??).