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Re: gdb and multi-threaded (NPTL) programs
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: John Fodor <john_fodor at mac dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:24:14 +0100
- Subject: Re: gdb and multi-threaded (NPTL) programs
- References: <44244F1F.6030108@mac.com>
John Fodor <john_fodor@mac.com> writes:
> Hmmm... so people who use POSIX threads have to put every syscall into a
> loop, ignoring EINTR?
Every library call that is allowed to return with EINTR must be handled
appropriately. sem_wait is specified as being able to return with EINTR.
If your program can't handle that it has a bug.
Andreas.
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