Re: [RFA] Don't use thread_db on corefiles

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:56:36PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Thread_db, as things stand, does not work on core files.  Is preventing
> > it from trying, and thus crashing GDB, really such a disruptive
> > suggestion?
> 
> OK, that came out a little harsher than I really wanted it.  Sorry.
> 
> I'd like to apply this patch and then add an entry to TODO about
> how it "should be done".  Is that better?

I'd really like to be able to look at the problem myself.
I have a lot invested in gdb's thread support on Linux, and
I don't have any way to reproduce the problem you're trying
to work around.  Could you provide a multi-threaded corefile
with corresponding symbol file for folks to experiment with?

If we agree to have your workaround checked in, and then later
decide that you've solved the problem the wrong way, then it will
be more painful to take out your workaround and make you revisit
the problem (after the bits have been flushed from your mental cache).  
Better we all agree on how to solve it first.