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Re: attaching gdb causes pthread_create hang [gdb6.3, long subject]


Bogdan Slusarczyk <bodzio131@op.pl> writes:

> You were right. System which I used didn't have tkill. Can you tell me if
> tkill availability is strongly connected with glibc version?

It's rather the version of the kernel headers that matter.  There is no
tkill function in glibc, gdb is directly calling the syscall, but needs
to know its number which is provided by <asm/syscall.h> (indirectly
through <sys/syscall.h>).

Andreas.

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