Re: Status update on NPTL
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:17:14AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> I've been investigating the crashes, but because of problems with gdb
> and strace I've had to take it slow. Kyle, I have your recent strace
> patches in my queue to test. Thanks for that.
>
Which ones? It would be good if some heavy debugger users could test the
changes in the tracehook branch with coredumps... I'll try to do a build
of strace using PTRACE_{GET,SET}REGS instead of PEEK & POKE for extra
testing there as well, but it seems to be working well enough for me.
> I've been building up a test case, and I can debug a simple nptl
> threaded application with gdb.
>
> The crashes in xterm using the new nptl libraries appear to be the NSS
> modules (dynamically loaded modules).
>
> I've augmented the testcase to use NSS, but I can still successfully
> debug an nptl threaded application that uses NSS.
>
> I have a couple more ideas to test, but after that my next step is to
> rebuild xterm with debugging symbols and dig in to figure out exactly
> what's crashing.
>
Cool. Congrats!
regards, Kyle
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