From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17633 invoked by alias); 2 Mar 2003 20:03:01 -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 17626 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2003 20:03:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.157.209.173) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 2 Mar 2003 20:03:00 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45DF52A9C; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 15:05:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E6263F8.7040706@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 20:03:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: expected behavior of GNU/Linux gcore and corefiles References: <3E617797.5000704@redhat.com> <20030302033900.GA14335@nevyn.them.org> <20030302034653.GA14491@nevyn.them.org> <3E622998.5020104@redhat.com> <20030302170911.GA20234@nevyn.them.org> <3E624DEC.7040108@redhat.com> <20030302183257.GA21281@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 >> >> If that position means precluding certain native-only functionality? > > > Not exactly; if that native-only functionality precludes keeping what > we have now for non-thread_db setups and extending it. > For instance, I > think we should always be able to print LWP state (assuming a 1-1 > mapping when we have no thread_db to ask for more information). And I > think we should add support for TLS based only on LWPs, since it's not > dependent on the thread manager. If we can't "info mutex" on a cross > corefile, well, that's the same as now. To draw this back to the original post. What of a native GDB loading libthread-db over a core file to determine thread IDs and TLS? Andrew