From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24482 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2001 14:53:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24446 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2001 14:53:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (128.2.145.6) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2001 14:53:44 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 165pnl-0003jM-00; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:53:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 07:53:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: peter@a59252.upc-a.chello.nl Cc: Kevin Buettner , gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: configuring gdb 5.x for use with threads Message-ID: <20011119095337.A13757@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: peter@a59252.upc-a.chello.nl, Kevin Buettner , gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <20011102102321.D6507@a59252.upc-a.chello.nl> <20011117142746.A12792@a59252.upc-a.chello.nl> <1011117165348.ZM6496@ocotillo.lan> <20011119120123.C14194@a59252.upc-a.chello.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011119120123.C14194@a59252.upc-a.chello.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00087.txt.bz2 [please wrap lines] On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:01:23PM +0100, peter@a59252.upc-a.chello.nl wrote: > using gdb 5.0.93-2001-11-18-cvs the following happens: after > attaching to a threaded programm, all threads that are in detached > state and should exit, leak. this will continue until my process > table swamps. > > I'm a developer, and willing to put some (though limited; business is > hard these days) time into this but I'm sort of in the dark here. > > and help, hints, etc. appreciated. This is a kernel bug. It varies a little with kernel version, but the patch looks like: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-glibc/2000-12/msg00057.html -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer