From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] linux threads: prevent starvation
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:33:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010613183408.A12073@redhat.com>
References: <3B26BCE9.AA6731EC@cygnus.com> <3B27D193.30405@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00272.html

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:48:19PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>> OK, this deserves some explanation.  
>> 
>> Problem: Debugging with GDB can cause some threads to starve
>> in a multi-threaded Linux program.
>
>Michael, to be honest, I think this deserves an accademic paper!  To 
>discover and demonstrate that GDB can cause thread starvation is is a 
>pretty amasing thing.

I agree.  I had the privilege of having this explained to me in person.
It was pretty interesting.

cgf