zombie threads after gdb

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:05:05PM -0300, horape@tinuviel.compendium.net.ar wrote:
> ?Hola!
> 
> I'm working in a heavy multithreaded program, and after running it under gdb,
> any threaded program that i run is unable of joining threads.
> 
> It seems that is a known problem (i've found several references to it
> googling), but i couldn't find any solution or workaround.
> 
> I'm running linux 2.4.18.

The patch was posted to this list about a year ago, by Mark Kettenis. 
It never made it into the kernel.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer