Re: Some more multi-fork fixes

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:09:43AM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> 
>>Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:41:15PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I'm up against a bit of a brick wall at the moment.  I've got
>>>>patches in my source tree to unify the single-threaded and
>>>>multi-threaded code in the Linux native layer into a single
>>>>combined target.  But since this is an inherently single-threaded
>>>>operation the multi-threaded code totally falls down - switching
>>>>forks doesn't preserve things like the LWP list, leading to
>>>>messy timeouts.  I'm going to find some minimally painful
>>>>way to make the two of them talk to each other.
>>>
>>>
>>>FYI, I've got that more or less working now (as well as it was
>>>previously). I'll post it in a bit.
>>>
>>
>>Hey Daniel, what's the status on this?
> 
> 
> Sorry, didn't close the circle: I did post this.  It's in these
> two:
>   http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2006-02/msg00493.html
>   http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2006-02/msg00494.html

Ah, that's what I was looking for.

> I've still got to work out the glibc side of the fourth patch
> in that series, but I don't think there's anything stopping me
> from committing the others; I should do that.  Does the first
> one above look good to you?

Got some questions -- I'll reply in-thread.