[Bug threads/11581] New: 'set scheduler-locking on' should be automatic in response to SIGABRT and SIGSEGV

["k04jg02 at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

When debugging a multithreaded app, before printing out any function calls it's
almost always necessary to 'set scheduler-locking on', because calling a simple
getter member function will step threads, and chances are execution has stopped
in the first place because of a crash, and the crash of that thread usually
means all of the other threads are going to crash, which is going to interrupt
you as you try to print out the values you need to examine to diagnose why the
thread crashed.

You can work around this to some extent by printing raw members (unless
execution steps then too? I haven't checked) but sometimes the 'getter' in
question does a little work that's annoying to repeat by hand in GDB (e.g.
adding an offset).

I think it would be the most convenient to have scheduler-locking turn on
automatically in response to SIGABRT and SIGSEGV. GDB would also need to loudly
announce that it's turning it on to avoid confusion, and perhaps there should be
an option to disable this behavior just in case. But I hypothesize it's the
behavior users would want 99% of the time.

Combined with fixing my other bug, 11580, debugging multithreaded apps would
involve a whole lot less of typing 'set scheduler-locking on' and 'set
scheduler-locking off' over and over ;p

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           Summary: 'set scheduler-locking on' should be automatic in
                    response to SIGABRT and SIGSEGV
           Product: gdb
           Version: 7.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: threads
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sourceware dot org
        ReportedBy: k04jg02 at gmail dot com
                CC: gdb-prs at sourceware dot org


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11581

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