Re: GDB, pthreads, and kernel threads

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

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.)

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 like resistors in an electrical circuit.' - Kaz Kylheku in c.o.l.d.s