From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 20 11:56:43 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 11:56:41 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257E137B400; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:56:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eBKJueT69666; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:56:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:56:40 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200012201956.eBKJueT69666@earth.backplane.com> To: Assar Westerlund Cc: Aled Morris , Jack Rusher , "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Warner Losh , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen .. References: <5ld7enduic.fsf@assaris.sics.se> <200012201721.eBKHL4Q67705@earth.backplane.com> <5ly9xax4w7.fsf@assaris.sics.se> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Matt Dillon writes: :> I need something gdb can latch on to. If the program exits all the state :> required to debug the problem goes away. : :abort() doesn't exit, it sends a SIGABRT which is caught by gdb. : :/assar True, except abort() does some really stupid things like close all open streams... it doesn't leave the resulting core file in a debuggable state half the time. In otherwords, it is useless. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message