Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 2 Aug 1996 09:48:16 -0400 (EDT) | From | David Schwartz <> | Subject | Re: proc fs and shared pids |
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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Michiel Boland wrote:
> >Allowing threads to share pid's means we have to go through and rethink > >what a lot of things mean. Do kill() and waitpid() operate on just > >one thread or all of them? > > All. > > But what about ptrace()???
Well, you know, you can't have everything. Where would you put it?
I work mostly on Linux machines, DEC Alpha machines, and SGI Challenge machines and debugging threaded programs is a pain on every platform I know of. It would be _very_ nice if Linux had a clear advantage in that area, wouldn't it?
DS
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