From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [0/7] RFC: read DWARF psymtabs in the background
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3eifu4ygd.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006222005.o5MK5TtD019970@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (Mark Kettenis's message of "Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:05:29 +0200 (CEST)")
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> writes:
Tom> I realize that threads are unpopular in many quarters, so this is an RFC.
Mark> Sorry, but this is pretty much a no-go for OpenBSD. We have a
Mark> userland threads implementation that puts file descriptors in
Mark> non-blocking mode such that it can switch to another thread if I/O to
Mark> that filedescriptor would block. This has side effects if these file
Mark> descriptors are shared with child processes :(.
If that is your only objection, it is no trouble to disable this code on
a per-host basis. All that is missing for that is some of the
configury; all the code is designed to allow single-threaded operation.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-25 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-14 18:22 Tom Tromey
2010-06-14 21:27 ` Michael Snyder
2010-06-15 3:00 ` Tom Tromey
2010-06-22 20:06 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-06-25 21:03 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2010-06-25 21:36 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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