Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:07:38 +0000 | From | Pedro Alves <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ptrace: add ability to get clear_tid_address |
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On 02/03/2012 04:51 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 02/03, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>> Because there's no need for current to get this value of himself, but can >> be useful for e.g. gdb. > > OK, perhaps this makes sense, I do not know. > > Jan, Pedro, do you think gdb can use PTRACE_GET_TID_ADDRESS (returns > tracee->clear_child_tid) ?
Off hand, I'm not picturing a use. But that may well just mean I'm lacking imagination. Andrew, Pavel, did you have a particular idea in mind when you said it may be useful for debugging a multithreading program / gdb?
-- Pedro Alves
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