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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: John Spencer <maillist-gdbpatches@barfooze.de>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Crash sourcing Python script on Windows
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zkhhrgcq.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E83D440.6000702@barfooze.de> (John Spencer's message of "Thu,	29 Sep 2011 04:13:20 +0200")

>>>>> "John" == John Spencer <maillist-gdbpatches@barfooze.de> writes:

John> FILE is supposed to be an opaque type and as such noone except of the
John> libc which defines it is supposed to "poke" at its internals.

Which is exactly what GDB does.

John> however it is common practice in GNU software to assume everybody uses
John> GLIBC and poke around in internal stuff thats not supposed to be
John> accessibly at all in userland. another example of such illegal
John> behaviour is libevent, which does illegal things with fd_set internals
John> to allow more than FD_SETSIZE file descriptors to be used with
John> select().

I don't even know what libevent is.  It isn't part of gdb.

I'm guessing you are referring back to the libthread_db discussion.
If so, please separate the streams.  Thanks.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-03 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-28 23:24 Joel Brobecker
2011-09-29  2:00 ` Paul_Koning
2011-09-29  2:19   ` John Spencer
2011-09-29  4:47     ` Joel Brobecker
2011-09-29  7:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-29  8:54         ` Kai Tietz
2011-09-29  9:48           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-29  9:51             ` Kai Tietz
2011-09-29 10:54       ` Pedro Alves
2011-09-29 12:33         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-29 12:48           ` Kai Tietz
2011-09-29 13:19           ` Pedro Alves
2011-09-29  7:26     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-03 20:05     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-09-29  7:20   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-03 20:02 ` Tom Tromey
2011-10-03 20:53   ` Joel Brobecker
2011-10-04 17:08     ` Tom Tromey
2012-01-23 18:14 ` [patch] Do not open Python scripts twice #2 [Re: [RFC] Crash sourcing Python script on Windows] Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-23 18:41   ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-23 21:55     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-23 22:08       ` Doug Evans
2012-01-23 22:47         ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-23 23:47           ` Doug Evans
2012-01-24 14:45             ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-24 18:56               ` Doug Evans
2012-01-24 19:41                 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-24 22:20                   ` Doug Evans
2012-01-24 23:49                     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-25 22:30                       ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-26  7:18                         ` Joel Brobecker
2012-01-26 22:03                           ` [commit] " Jan Kratochvil
2012-01-24 15:15             ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-23 19:57   ` Pedro Alves

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