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Subject: Re: Debugging FreeBSD user threads with gdb
In-Reply-To: <199905072010.NAA46817@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "May 7, 1999 01:10:47 pm"
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Matthew Dillon once wrote:

>     Hmmm.   tid is only an int and some programs which create and destroy
>     threads a lot are almost certainly going to overflow it.  4 billion
>     is not hard to reach.  This can result in duplicate tid's.

Unsigned will double that. Not enough either?

	-mi


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