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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:10:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PR guile/17247] Block SIGCHLD while initializing Guile
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> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,  guile-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 18:18:45 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:
> 
> > Perhaps we should request GC and Guile to provide capabilities to
> > disable threads at run time, then.
> 
> I don’t think we need to go this far: reading the recent discussions, it
> seems Doug found a way to make sure Guile’s and libgc’s internal threads
> don’t receive signals that GDB is interested in, which should be enough
> for practical purposes.

That's just the tip of an iceberg, I'm afraid.