From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <3B27D193.30405@cygnus.com>
References: <3B26BCE9.AA6731EC@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00269.html

> 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