"Cannot find new threads" on Fedora 9, but not on CentOS 5 (?)

[Michael Snyder]

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> 
> Tom> My summary of the discussion is that someone will have to dig into the
> Tom> problem in depth.  My understanding is that Ulrich does not like that
> Tom> patch.  But, neither of us knows enough about this part of gdb to say
> Tom> what it may be doing wrong.
> 
> Daniel> I don't suppose you can be any more specific?  I agree that the
> Daniel> dl-load.c bit is ugly, but at least the other portion seems clearly
> Daniel> correct and I don't understand how the fault token shifted back to
> Daniel> GDB.
> 
> The above really does convey the gist of our conversation.
> 
> I'm somewhat uncomfortable trying to act as an intermediary in a
> discussion where I really know nothing about the problem.  I will try
> to educate myself a bit so I can come up with good followup questions.

Tom, I do appreciate your position...

Could you possibly summarize the problem and the proposed patch?