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Re: [Fwd: Re: patch to ignore SIGPWR and SIGXCPU (used by pthreads)]
- From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:50:43 -0800
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: patch to ignore SIGPWR and SIGXCPU (used by pthreads)]
- References: <400B68AE-0E33-11D6-9C15-003065F97F7C@waitaki.otago.ac.nz>
Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> Ideally the GC should just use "real-time" signals for the thread
> suspend/resume on systems which support them. GDB won't stop on an RT
> signal. Linux didn't support them until a few years ago but it should be
> easy enough to do a configure test instead of the "# if
> defined(GC_HPUX_THREADS) || defined(GC_OSF1_THREADS)" that is currently
> done in boehm-gc/linux_threads.c.
Is this easy to fix? I have no idea how to use "real-time signals".
I really would like to fix either the Java runtime or gdb so people
debugging Java programs don't have to issue 'handle' commands. That
is just not acceptable.
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--Per Bothner
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