From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26226 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2008 04:27:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 26215 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Apr 2008 04:27:33 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:09:45 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (170.63.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.63.170]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E643DB9CF; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:56:35 +1200 (NZST) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6132F8FC6E; Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:56:34 +1200 (NZST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18451.45857.500742.342261@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:53:00 -0000 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Report the main thread. In-Reply-To: <20080426224211.GA26195@caradoc.them.org> References: <200804262005.18646.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <200804261617.m3QGH9dv027362@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20080426185448.GA14511@caradoc.them.org> <18451.43847.127294.906184@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20080426224211.GA26195@caradoc.them.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.2.50.2 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-04/txt/msg00616.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20080427135300.lBENtGW9fR4qcDZmgGwFNSn5yfpUbby4HU29Hxy0ftQ@z> > > I still don't see the point in reporting the main thread. If there's more > > than one thread the user can switch between them but what course of action > > is available with just one thread? > > The GUI might have a thread list, for instance. But my question was "what could a user do with it?". AFAICS a thread list with just one thread in it just looks like the output of the "frame" command. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob