Re: thread cannot stop himself

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>]

Nicolas Vignal <nicolas.vignal@netline.fr> writes:

> Hello
> 
> I join a sample program with a thread who try to stop himself with a
> SIGSTOP.
> ( I know that is not the best way to do that ;-)
> It works fine in command line but not under gdb.
> gdb receive the signal and the flag pass to program is yes. But the thread 
> never stop.
> 
> Any idea of what happened ?

GDB uses SIGSTOP internally (for stopping threads) which interferes
horribly with your own use of the signal.  I'm loooking into a
solution, but things are pretty hairy, and I can't guarantee that I
find an acceptable solution to the problem.

For now, the only advice I can give you is: don't use SIGSTOP.  I'm
not sure what you're trying to accomplish by having a thread stop
itself, but there should be an alternative to using signals.  Try
using a mutex, semaphore or perhaps poll/select.

Mark