From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21405 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2002 07:39:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 21365 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2002 07:39:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bothner.com) (216.102.199.253) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 2002 07:39:15 -0000 Received: from bothner.com (eureka.bothner.com [192.168.1.9]) by bothner.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0L7ecM07069; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:40:38 -0800 Message-ID: <3C4BC5C0.2010909@bothner.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:39:00 -0000 From: Per Bothner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020111 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Cagney CC: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: patch to ignore SIGPWR and SIGXCPU (used by pthreads) References: <3C49D806.4050500@bothner.com> <3C4B6560.6010201@cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00629.txt.bz2 To my forwarding of Andrew's (first) response to the Java list, I got this response from Bryce McKinlay : Ideally the GC should just use "real-time" signals for the thread suspend/resume on systems which support them. GDB won't stop on an RT signal. Linux didn't support them until a few years ago but it should be easy enough to do a configure test instead of the "# if defined(GC_HPUX_THREADS) || defined(GC_OSF1_THREADS)" that is currently done in boehm-gc/linux_threads.c. regards Bryce.