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Re: [PATCH v2] Remove support for thread events without PTRACE_EVENT_CLONE in GDB.


On 12/10/2015 03:22 PM, Antoine Tremblay wrote:
> Before, on systems that did not support PTRACE_EVENT_CLONE, both GDB and
> GDBServer coordinated with libthread_db.so to insert breakpoints at magic
> locations in libpthread.so, in order to break at thread creation and
> thread death.
> 
> Support for thread events was removed from GDBServer as patch:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-11/msg00466.html
> 
> This patch removes support for thread events in GDB.
> 
> No regressions found on Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64.
> 

LGTM.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


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