Re: [RFA] Report the main thread.

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 06:17:09PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > Presently, on Linux, we do add the main thread to the thread list, but we
> > fail to report this new thread to outside world.  I think we should not
> > do any such special-casing -- if we want the =thread-created notification
> > to be usable as replacement for getting the thread, we better emit that
> > for all new thread.
> 
> I disagree.  The "main" thread is not a new thread, but has been there
> all along.  Users would be terribly confused you'd report some sort of
> thread creation event here.

Me too.  We used to report this thread - since we did not detect it
until later, when libthread_db initialized - and I deliberately left
it silent when I fixed that.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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