From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Vignal To: Mark Kettenis , Shaw Terwilliger , gdb@sources.redhat.com Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: thread exit goes defunct Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:40:00 -0000 Message-id: <01021317395100.07654@nicolas> References: <01021216193600.01165@nicolas> <20010212105114.B26819@lister.sourcegear.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00137.html Wait and see... Regards Nicolas On Tuesday 13 February 2001 12:20, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Shaw Terwilliger writes: > > Nicolas Vignal wrote: > > > Under gdb when a thread exit, he goes in the defunct state. > > > > I've been wondering about this too. Since the old threads don't die, > > I quickly run out of processes, which makes debugging long-running > > servers (which spawn new threads on new connections) difficult. > > This *is* caused by a long standing kernel bug. Alan Cox has promised > to look into it if he can find the time, but it doesn't have a really > high prority for him. Anyway, someone who does care should take this > up with the kernel folks; see the attached message that I posted to > the linux-kernel mailing list last december. I simply don't care > enough to keep sending this stuff to the Linux kernel folks. > > Mark > > Peter Berger writes: ...