Re: gdb and cloned process

Michael Snyder
2008-10-23T18:31:49Z

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 05:09:32PM -0700, Lukasz Lempart wrote:
>> How does gdb (through libthread_db) figure out what threads belong to a process?
>
> The thread library maintains an internal list of threads. If you've
> cloned the process, without telling the C library about that, you're
> going to end up with the same list of threads; so the behavior you
> describe is not surprising.
>
>> Is there currently a way to disable thread debugging in gdb?
>
> Not really. You might be able to preload a dummy libthread_db.so.1
> that always failed to detect new threads.

What if you strip libthread.so? Isn't that supposed to
cause thread debugging to fail?