From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2947 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2004 19:40:12 -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 2940 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2004 19:40:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Mar 2004 19:40:11 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1B4Pql-0004tS-BD; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:40:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:40:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jeff Johnston Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC]: fix for recycled thread ids Message-ID: <20040319194011.GA18776@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jeff Johnston , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <405A4089.1080605@redhat.com> <20040319015351.GA28443@nevyn.them.org> <405B3F83.4030503@redhat.com> <20040319190126.GA16950@nevyn.them.org> <405B4B8C.2060801@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <405B4B8C.2060801@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00469.txt.bz2 On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:35:40PM -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote: > >Conceptually, we attach to LWPs, not to threads. That suggests to me > >that the correct fix is to ask the LWP layer if the LWP is attached > >rather than looking it up in the thread list in the first place. > >We've already got an appropriate list of LWPs though we might need a > >new accessor. > > > > I like that idea. We still have to deal with the bogus thread list entry. > The routine prune_threads calls thread_db_alive and it won't realize the > thread info it has is bogus because it will find the tid is valid. Do you think this will be a problem? My hope is that it will just look as if the thread has 'migrated' to a new LWP. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer