non-stop and current thread exiting

[Pawel Piech]

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Thursday 05 June 2008 00:13:07 you wrote:
>   
>>  As far as I remember -thread-info displays information
>>  about a single thread, though I don't think it's implemented.  
>>  -thread-list-all-threads which is supposed to be equivalent to info 
>>  threads, could show exited threads and let the UI filter them out.  
>>  However -thread-list-ids, which is actually implemented, only lists IDs, 
>>  so there's no way for the UI to tell which ones are live.     
>>     
>
> -thread-info is implemented in CVS HEAD, and can either report all threads
> (when used without a parameter), or a specific thread. There's also a patch
> to make it report, for each thread, if it's running or not.
> -thread-list-all-threads will not be implemented, in light of current
>  -thread-info behaviour.
>   
That's great news.  Thanks!

> -thread-list-ids is a historical artefact, using it is strictly inferiour
> to -thread-info, and the frontend should first probe -thread-info and use
> -thread-list-ids as a fallback only.
>   
For backward, it would be great if this command would still work as 
before, i.e. it didn't include threads that exited.

Cheers,
Pawel
> - Volodya
>