From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 745 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2008 17:36:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 737 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jun 2008 17:36:39 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-248-179-123.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO ednor.cgf.cx) (71.248.179.123) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:36:22 +0000 Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 2AB6846D00C; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:36:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:03:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] win32-nat.c 'set new-console' and interruption Message-ID: <20080623173620.GA10962@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <000001c8d330$0c6b51f0$2541f5d0$@u-strasbg.fr> <20080623114505.GA9244@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <001001c8d53c$a773fe50$f65bfaf0$@u-strasbg.fr> <200806231541.26276.pedro@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200806231541.26276.pedro@codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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: 2008-06/txt/msg00391.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:41:26PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: >Another option is to use SuspendThread on all threads to stop the >process, which is what I believe Visual Studio uses. gdbserver has >that implemented for systems that don't have DebugBreakProcess. It may be ok in Windows XP and beyond (I haven't checked) but I don't believe you can reliably use SuspendThread otherwise. If you suspend a thread at the wrong point you can cause problems. cgf