Re: lin-thread cannot handle thread exit

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Michael Snyder wrote:
> 

> > All i ever debug on BeOS is multi-threaded apps.
> > Almost anything you do involves threads.
> > Open a window, you've started at least 2 threads.
> > File selection boxes fill in a seperate thread, etc.
> > So i constantly have threads coming and going, and doing things.
> > The hardest part of the whole port of gdb is telling gdb what
> > happened, and making gdb do the right thing.
> > On BeOS, we don't even have processes, just teams and threads.
> > Everything on BeOS works, except typing run and have it start (you
> > have to run and continue) :P.
> > I looked at thread_db over the weekend, in hopes of being able to redo
> > the port and get it into GDB (it's badly needing a rewrite anyway),
> > but it still looks like it has too many problems.
> 
> What problems are you referring to?
> Right now the only one I'm aware of is that it doesn't
> detect thread exit.

Michael,

Did you get any further with this?  Did the problem exist in the old
thread implementation for instance?

	Andrew