Re: RMS interview on LWN
Bill Bland <wjb@netpd.com> writes:
> and I'm confused about something: RMS says "You can even use GDB to
> debug the file system while the system is running--thread-specific
> breakpoints allow you to..."
That is right. All the Hurd server run entirely in User space which
makes it possible to simply attach gdb to them.
> So was RMS talking about a different threads library or something
> that is planned but not yet implemented?
You are right, pthreads isn't ported yet, people are working on that.
The Hurd currently uses the cthreads library.
moritz
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