zombie threads after gdb

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 10:16:37PM -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.
> 
> I've applied (by hand) the patch available at http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-glibc/2000-12/msg00057.html
> to linux 2.4.18 with no luck.
> 
> Some idea on what could i do?

Then you have a different problem.  Make a testcase and report it to
the linux-kernel list.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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