libpthread and gdbserver

[Julian Elischer]

Julian Elischer wrote:
> the actual question was from dixit @ netapp.com
> but for some reason it didn't appear on this email..

the origianl question can be seen at:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2008-August/004330.html

> 
> 
> David Xu wrote:
>> Julian Elischer wrote:
>>> just saw youe email to freebsd-threads...
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>>
>>> But pt_ta_map_lwp2thr() internally calls pt_ta_map_id2thr() in
>>> libthr_db.c so 'pid to tid' conversion is missing.
>>> If FreeBsd intends to keep it this way, I will have to modify gdbserver
>>> to not use 'pid' to find threads as Linux does.
>>> Can someone shed some light on this? Am I mailing the correct
>>> mailing-list with these queries?
>>>
>>> -----
>>>
>>> you might try directly mailing davidxu or marcel or jhb (all 
>>> @freebsd.org). they SHOULD have seen that posting but may not have..
>>>
>>> jhb is I think away for a few days.
>>>  but was doing stuff with the debugger quite recently.
>>>
>>
>> Our thread has its kernel thread id, it is called lwpid, this is not
>> linux like pid, I know linux thread is a special process.
>>
>>
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