From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: "there is always a thread"
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 15:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8584E8.5080700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1031009152718.ZM12973@localhost.localdomain>
> It depends upon the stratum. dummy_stratum and file_stratum (and
> download_stratum?) will have no thread because nothing's running yet.
I should have earlier posted that a target has 0:N threads.
>> A non-threaded app having a single thread
>> corresponding to the main process.
>
>
> For the other strata, this should be (made to be) true.
>
> A fallout from this change may be that the process_stratum and
> thread_stratum can be merged.
It depends on what you mean by merge.
There would still be a thread layer that abstracted the POSIX user
threads and below it a process layer that abstracted the more physical
LWPs. However, the existing assumption that there was only one thread
stratum and and only it could have threads would be removed.
Andrew
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-09 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-09 14:27 Andrew Cagney
2003-10-09 14:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-09 15:27 ` Kevin Buettner
2003-10-09 15:55 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
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