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Subject: Re: GDB locks RPM database
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On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 6:11 PM Muhammad Umer via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
wrote:

> But why take a lock? If the purpose is to get info about debug packages,
> why not just query the package database using rpm command and get the
> required information? Why is taking a lock necessary?
>

 Simon didn't implement the functionality, so you would have to ask redhat,
or whomever it was that wrote the code. This is not a part of a normal gdb
installation.