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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: does it make sense to stop on SIGPRIO?
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110105072245.GA28888@adacore.com> (raw)

I've been looking at how we decide what to when we receive a signal.
We have some code that disables stop&printing for various signals
because these signals are used as part of normal thread operations.

  /* These signals are used internally by user-level thread
     implementations.  (See signal(5) on Solaris.)  Like the above
     signals, a healthy program receives and handles them as part of
     its normal operation.  */

We do the same for other signals, which are not error signals:

  /* Signals that are not errors should not normally enter the debugger.  */

On LynxOS, changing the priority of a thread automatically causes
a SIGPRIO signal to be raised.  I think that SIGPRIO falls more
into the second category (not a signal used to indicate an error).

Are there any known situations where we would want a SIGPRIO would
be indicating something abnormal, or significant enough that we would
want to stop?

Thanks,
-- 
Joel


             reply	other threads:[~2011-01-05  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-05  7:22 Joel Brobecker [this message]
2011-01-05 13:13 ` Mark Kettenis
2011-01-05 13:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-05 18:23 ` Michael Snyder
2011-01-05 18:26   ` Michael Snyder

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