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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, kettenis@wins.uva.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] linux threads: prevent starvation
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B27D193.30405@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B26BCE9.AA6731EC@cygnus.com>

> 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.

Even if you don't want to go as far as a paper, we can probably add this 
to the collection of GDB papers on the web.

	Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-13 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-12 18:07 Michael Snyder
2001-06-13 13:48 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2001-06-13 15:33   ` Christopher Faylor
2001-06-26 19:08 ` Michael Snyder
2001-07-06 12:15 ` Michael Snyder

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