From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix for PR gdb/10757
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910262135.00507.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ac60eac0910261425x363afd0bp43299ab0b18e576a@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday 26 October 2009 21:25:39, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> I wonder if it *could* take some lock that would make all other threads
> wait in pthread_create -- after all, thread_db does have access to inferior
> via ps_pdwrite. That would certainly make the interface cleaner, at a cost
> of an extra global lock on pthread_create path.
the problem with that is that gdb can stop all threads while one
of them is holding the lock --- you'd have to consider
the possibility of gdb deadlocking.
--
Pedro Alves
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-26 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-15 19:10 Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-10-17 23:26 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-10-25 17:15 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-10-25 23:54 ` Pedro Alves
2009-10-26 21:25 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-10-26 21:34 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2009-10-27 0:41 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-10-27 9:43 ` Pedro Alves
2009-10-27 16:58 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-10-27 21:38 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-10-27 21:52 ` Pedro Alves
2009-10-28 17:04 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-10-25 23:59 Pedro Alves
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