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Re: problems with gdb
From: nsd@cygnus.com (Nick Duffek)
Date: 12 Feb 2000 04:18:22 GMT
In article <38A47E89.3F4674B3@mozilla.org>,
>There are also various problems with threads. A lot of times gdb
>won't exit after the last thread exits because it keeps trying to
>kill a process which doesn't exist any more.
I've got a similar report from elsewhere; I'll be checking into it shortly.
As I wrote in a reaction to Chris's message, this may very well be
caused by a bug in LinuxThreads. I've seen several bug-reports about
apps not exiting after the last thread finished. Apparently there is
a race of some sort (surprise, surprise), and it may very well be that
debugging with GDB just makes it more likely to trigger the race.
Mark