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Re: [RFA] Don't use thread_db on corefiles

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 05:10:04PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Hold on -- I think we're having too many conversations at once.
> The kernel doesn't know anything about glibc threads, which are
> the only threads that thread-db is concerned with.

Oversimplification there on my part.  At the moment, LinuxThreads is
the only package we've been asked to support for Linux thread
debugging; and for the at least short-term foreseeable future, it uses
a one-thread/one-kernel-task model.  Thus the kernel has everything I
need to debug them.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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