Re: [RFA/commit] Add support for DEC threads on alpha-osf

Nathan Froyd
2008-10-07T15:21:24Z

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:01:54AM -0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > ... this is an M:N configuration? It looks like it, because threads
> > 2,3,4 were added before the lwps 5,6,7, and the threads 2,3 show a
> > different frame from lwps 5,6.
>
> I am strongly suspecting that it is indeed an M:N configuration,
> but I don't know that for sure. The LWPs look like kernel threads
> (the pthreaddebug API mentions their existence).

Yes, OSF/1 uses an M:N configuration. (From hard-won debugging
experience and http://members.aol.com/drbutenhof/ThreadTable.html.)

-Nathan