To: John Clark <jclark@metricsystems.com>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GDB, pthreads, and kernel threads
References: <428A8034.801@metricsystems.com>
From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:01:48 +0100
In-Reply-To: <428A8034.801@metricsystems.com> (John Clark's message of "18
 May 2005 00:54:57 +0100")
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On 18 May 2005, John Clark announced authoritatively:
> Most of my work has been in the kernel and I had not paid attention to
> user 'threads'. However, I have at the moment to a need to debug a
> user 'pthread' based applicaiton, that I may want to move into the kernel.
> 
> However, I can't seem to figure out how to get GDB to debug my user
> pthreads app. What is the correct setup to debug pthreads based applications
> now that it seems that pthreads implementation generates processes/threads
> in the kernel.

Use a recent GDB (>=6.2) and things should just work. (At least, they do
for me.)

-- 
`End users are just test loads for verifying that the system works, kind of
 like resistors in an electrical circuit.' - Kaz Kylheku in c.o.l.d.s
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