From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [gdbserver] Problems trying to resume dead threads
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080805215831.GA19565@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808052105.m75L5FEJ003528@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:05:15PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 09:45:46PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> > > I'd propose to just silently ignore ESRCH errors while writing registers
> > > (in addition to your patch). What do you think?
> >
> > I think that's acceptable, though not ideal. ESRCH can mean "the
> > program is gone", or for ptrace it can mean "the program is not
> > stopped". So there are a class of bugs in gdbserver which can lead to
> > the ESRCH error path. But distinguishing them from this case is quite
> > difficult.
>
> The following patch implements this approach, fixing the problem for me.
> Tested on powerpc-linux in local gdbserver mode. OK?
Yes, this is OK. Thanks!
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-05 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-19 17:17 Ulrich Weigand
2008-08-04 13:40 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-08-04 18:25 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-08-04 18:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-08-04 19:46 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-08-04 19:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-08-05 21:06 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-08-05 21:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-08-05 22:15 ` Ulrich Weigand
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