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Re: gdb, pthreads, and sleep

From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
To: drow at mvista dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:54:17 -0400
Subject: Re: gdb, pthreads, and sleep

mec>       int unslept = 9;
mec>       while (unslept)
mec>         unslept = sleep (unslept);

drow> Yes.

I'll write up a patch.

drow> See the archives (it's in a PR somewhere, and in gdb@ also) for more
drow> information.  Kernel 2.6 will restart the syscall in this case.  Many
drow> other interruptible syscalls will not be restarted but that's the best
drow> we can do.

I found this:

  http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/bugs/259
  Thread receives Interrupted System Call error while waiting on message queue.

I'll write up some doco, too.

Michael C

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