From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18807 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2003 01:08:35 -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 18792 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2003 01:08:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 8 Jan 2003 01:08:34 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18W6aS-00074c-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 21:09:01 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18W4i2-0007zT-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 20:08:42 -0500 Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 01:08:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: threads and target-function-calls Message-ID: <20030108010842.GA30628@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <3E1B7829.6B6E8BAF@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E1B7829.6B6E8BAF@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00313.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:00:25PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote: > Hey folks, > > Did you know that (at least on x86 linux), if you have a multi-thread > program and you execute a target function call, all the threads get to > run? Doesn't that seem like a bad thing? Wouldn't we really rather > only run the thread that is executing the target function call? Eeeeek! I think I agree with you here; that's the logical behavior. It never occured to me to try. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer