From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5790 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2002 03:37:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 5783 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2002 03:37:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 31 Jul 2002 03:37:57 -0000 Received: from dsl254-114-118.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.254.114.118] helo=nevyn.them.org ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17ZkJC-000764-00; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:37:59 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17ZkJC-000356-00; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:37:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:37:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "Richard A. Painter" Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb Message-ID: <20020731033758.GA11828@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Richard A. Painter" , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <3D40B4CB.D569130A@ieee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D40B4CB.D569130A@ieee.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00311.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 08:32:43PM -0600, Richard A. Painter wrote: > i was reviewing the documentation for gdb and found no references to pthreads > specifically but did see some thread support. > > pthreads embodies threads, mutexes and condition variables. i saw no references > to the mutexes and condition variables in the docs. > > does gdb support pthreads, mutexes and condition variables? How would a debugger support mutexes and condition variables? They'll still work in programs run under the debugger. Pthreads does not expose convenient interfaces for examining their states, though. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer