Re: Merge of nickrob-async-20060513 to mainline?

Mark Kettenis
2006-08-31T21:03:13Z

> From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:18:58 +1200
>
> Also it still uses pthreads. You said previously that it should be done
> in one process and, following a remark from Jim Ingham, that ptrace is
> non-blocking. AFAICS the problem is that wait *is* blocking and I can't
> see of a way to deal with that without using another thread.

I've stated before that I think that making gdb multi-threaded is a
seriously bad idea.

Mark