From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8840 invoked by alias); 11 Jun 2008 18:42:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 8830 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jun 2008 18:42:48 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from bluesmobile.specifix.com (HELO bluesmobile.specifix.com) (216.129.118.140) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:42:30 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (bluesmobile.specifix.com [216.129.118.140]) by bluesmobile.specifix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5390A3C5DB; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:42:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: SIGCHLD ignored From: Michael Snyder To: Vladimir Prus Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: References: <200806112121.06783.ghost@cs.msu.su> <20080611173626.GA25045@caradoc.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:42:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1213209749.3601.615.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-7.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00103.txt.bz2 On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 22:08 +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote: > I actually would appreciate some comments about what we do with SIGCHLD > in linux-nat.c -- the code is fairly complex to understand this by > reading. Ha ha, yes. Legacy of old linux threads model, I think. If we change anything in that area, we should probably test to make sure gdb still works on old linux thread model. Unles we want to decide that we no longer support that -- but I believe there are still platforms that have not converted over to NPTL threads (or have done so only recently).