single-step SIGALRM issue

[Laszlo Benedek]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 06:50:00PM +0100, Laszlo Benedek wrote:
>> I tried to find the reason of this and here is what I've found. When
>> gdb starts single stepping
> [...]
>
> What version of GDB are you using?  And could you try a current
> snapshot?  Also, what is your host operating system - I'm guessing
> Linux from the description, but what version?  Sigsuspend is known
> to have some bad interactions with GDB.
>

I thought a new version of gdb would work better so I downloaded the
source of gdb 6.8 a few days ago.
As far as I know that is the most recent version. Unfortunately it did
not make the situation any better.
I have a SLED10 SP1 linux. Kernel version: 2.6.16.53-0.16-bigsmp #1
SMP Tue Oct 2 16:57:49 UTC 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Laszlo Benedek