From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: threads and target-function-calls
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 00:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E1CC6E3.51B1227F@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030108010842.GA30628@nevyn.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:00:25PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > Did you know that (at least on x86 linux), if you have a multi-thread
> > program and you execute a target function call, all the threads get to
> > run? Doesn't that seem like a bad thing? Wouldn't we really rather
> > only run the thread that is executing the target function call?
>
> Eeeeek! I think I agree with you here; that's the logical behavior.
> It never occured to me to try.
I just happened to have "debug lin-lwp" turned on.
Perhaps we need to think about what "target function call"
actually means in the presence of threads that can interact
with each other.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-09 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-08 1:00 Michael Snyder
2003-01-08 1:08 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-08 2:49 ` Dan Mosedale
2003-01-08 3:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-09 0:48 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2003-01-09 1:51 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-08 16:18 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-08 16:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-09 0:47 ` Michael Snyder
2003-01-09 0:56 ` Michael Snyder
2003-01-09 1:05 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-15 19:39 ` Michael Snyder
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