checkpoints vs multithreaded programs

[Kevin Pouget]

some work has been done to support GlibC/Pthread checkpointing:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/jansel/papers/2006pdpta.pdf but it would
require some substantial work to really support it from GDB I guess
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On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:54 AM, przemekk834a <przemekk834a@o2.pl> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Recently I've found the following message on the bugs list:
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> [Bug threads/12628] New: GDB checkpoint can't/shouldn't be possible with multiple threads on Linux
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> I have a quick question: does it mean that checkpoint support for multithreaded programs will be removed from future versions of GDB? (If I understand correctly this never have been working due to Linux system limitations).
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> I'm asking because I write a GUI frontend for GDB and I consider adding GUI for checkpoints -- but with single-thread limitation I doubt this makes much sense.
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> Best regards,
> Przemek Kuczmierczyk
>