From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 26 2:56:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3000614E9A for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 02:56:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09837 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 11:56:30 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA43361 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 11:56:26 +0100 (MET) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B2C14E9A for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 02:56:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA82178; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 11:01:26 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 11:01:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Jason Evans Cc: Anthony Kimball , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads In-Reply-To: <19991124141718.Q301@sturm.canonware.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Jason Evans wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 02:47:22PM -0600, Anthony Kimball wrote: > > Quoth Julian Elischer on Wed, 24 November: > > : > And I just hate to think of the crocks that debuggers will need to have to > > : > be aware of this thread multiplexing going on in user space. > > : > > : That is a worry certainly. But it was solved for Solaris > > > > For some value of 'solved' ;-) > > Debugging multi-threaded applications is just plain complex. I've found > gdb's threads support on Solaris to be surprisingly good. I for one will > be really happy if threads debugging is that well supported on FreeBSD. I'm planning to finish off my gdb thread support tomorrow and commit it. Could you take over maintenance after? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message