Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:11:16 +0200
From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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        akpm@linux-foundation.org, indan@nul.nu
Subject: Re: waitpid(WNOHANG) should report SIGCHLD-notified signals  [Re:
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Hi Tejun,

On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:13:18 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 07:47:22PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > If the debugger wants to be single-threaded ("poll() model", not "threads
> > model") and it wants to communicate with user and examine debuggee symbols and
> > memory data it cannot use sleeping wait.  GDB is single-threaded and it
> > supports `set target-async 1': info '(gdb)Background Execution'
> 
> I don't think target-async is necessarily related.  It doesn't really
> matter whether the execution per-se is async or not.  The ptracer can
> be a separate thread

It cannot as various GDB-supported platforms do not support threads properly.
And you want to have a common codebase to get it will supported.

Besides that it is a matter of coding style, I perfer "poll() model" even on
threads-supporting GNU/Linux.


> Anyways, I would recommend using sleeping wait(2)'s for ptrace event
> tracking.

You cannot as I described above.


Thanks,
Jan
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