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Re: Merge of nickrob-async-20060513 to mainline?

> From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:18:58 +1200
> 
> Also it still uses pthreads.  You said previously that it should be done
> in one process and, following a remark from Jim Ingham, that ptrace is
> non-blocking.  AFAICS the problem is that wait *is* blocking and I can't
> see of a way to deal with that without using another thread.

I've stated before that I think that making gdb multi-threaded is a
seriously bad idea.

Mark
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