Re: [PATCH RFC] linux threads: prevent starvation

Christopher Faylor
2001-06-13T15:33:00Z

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:48:19PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>> OK, this deserves some explanation.
>>
>> Problem: Debugging with GDB can cause some threads to starve
>> in a multi-threaded Linux program.
>
>Michael, to be honest, I think this deserves an accademic paper! To
>discover and demonstrate that GDB can cause thread starvation is is a
>pretty amasing thing.

I agree. I had the privilege of having this explained to me in person.
It was pretty interesting.

cgf