From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13919 invoked by alias); 14 Dec 2001 04:29:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13756 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2001 04:28:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (128.2.145.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 14 Dec 2001 04:28:16 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16EjxI-0005Ya-00; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 23:28:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 20:29:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Michael Snyder Cc: Andrew Cagney , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Don't use thread_db on corefiles Message-ID: <20011213232816.C20920@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Snyder , Andrew Cagney , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20011213114847.A17989@nevyn.them.org> <3C190DDC.B32D6A7B@cygnus.com> <20011213152958.A30211@nevyn.them.org> <3C1931E3.E240B409@cygnus.com> <20011213180259.A11251@nevyn.them.org> <3C1933E7.E2B9DE87@cygnus.com> <20011213181006.A11536@nevyn.them.org> <3C193BA0.2030207@cygnus.com> <20011213184449.A12630@nevyn.them.org> <3C19516C.DB743DF2@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C19516C.DB743DF2@cygnus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00380.txt.bz2 On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 05:10:04PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote: > Hold on -- I think we're having too many conversations at once. > The kernel doesn't know anything about glibc threads, which are > the only threads that thread-db is concerned with. Oversimplification there on my part. At the moment, LinuxThreads is the only package we've been asked to support for Linux thread debugging; and for the at least short-term foreseeable future, it uses a one-thread/one-kernel-task model. Thus the kernel has everything I need to debug them. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer