From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7274 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2004 18:09:50 -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 7266 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2004 18:09:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.129.200.20) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Feb 2004 18:09:49 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA3152B92; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:09:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4023D86E.4050003@gnu.org> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:09:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Anzinger Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , "Amit S. Kale" , gdb@sources.redhat.com, kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: qL and qf remote packets [Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] Re: [discuss] kgdb-x86_64-1.6 for kernel 2.4.23] References: <200312261743.38980.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> <200312300937.48484.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> <20031230041859.GA29114@nevyn.them.org> <200312301811.29927.amitkale@emsyssoft.com> <20031230152803.GB13258@nevyn.them.org> <3FF322B6.30603@gnu.org> <4019B0B2.2090609@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 >> The user might (eventually). They aren't going to be notified of thread create/delete events. Also, it could leave around per-thread breakpoings no longer applicable to that thread. > > I think this might be more of a problem in user land. In the kernel, first it is rare to reuse a pid, but still, if it is reused, it is expected. To help the user we also use the thread info command to insert the tasks name in the info thread command. Ok, I'll wait for someone to notice a real problem .... :-) Andrew