Re: expected behavior of GNU/Linux gcore and corefiles

Andrew Cagney
2003-03-02T20:15:25Z

Dig dig, this has come up before. Up until this change:

> 2002-01-04 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
>
> * thread-db.c (thread_db_new_objfile): Do not enable thread_db
> for core files.
>

GDB was barfing when trying to load the thread DB. Looking back through
that thread, part of the problem appears to have stemed from GDB
thinking that the GNU/Linux core file contained threads instead of LWPs :-(

Andrew