Re: [RFC PATCH v2] gdb: Add drgn-why-sleeping command

[Alexandra Petlanova Hajkova <ahajkova@redhat.com>]

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On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 8:03 PM Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:

> >>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Kevin> If we had some sort of user-facing contrib directory, it could be
> Kevin> placed there.  Alternately, as the AI reviewer suggested, it could
> Kevin> go into a contrib directory in the drgn package.
>
> FWIW this latter approach makes sense to me.  One idea behind the Python
> extension work is that project-specific things can be shipped with that
> project, and don't need to be in gdb itself.
>
> thanks,
> Tom
>

Hi Tom,

This command is intended for user space debugging while drgn is currently
used
to debug only the kernel. Most user space developers are unaware
that such a tool
even exists. If this script were part of drgn, only a few people would know
about
its existence. If shipped as a part of GDB, it would be exposed to the
regular GDB users
who would actually debug multi-threaded user space programs.

Thank you,
Alexandra

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