gdb and multi-threaded (NPTL) programs

[Andreas Schwab]

John Fodor <john_fodor@mac.com> writes:

> Hmmm... so people who use POSIX threads have to put every syscall into a 
> loop, ignoring EINTR?

Every library call that is allowed to return with EINTR must be handled
appropriately.  sem_wait is specified as being able to return with EINTR.
If your program can't handle that it has a bug.

Andreas.

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