From 0dea24683af9a708125ba1fa06e2a3a296d390a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Cagney Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:53:39 +0000 Subject: 2004-07-28 Andrew Cagney * PROBLEMS: Mention threads/1650. * NEWS: Mention the NPTL fix. --- gdb/NEWS | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'gdb/NEWS') diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS index 9936833..df9999b 100644 --- a/gdb/NEWS +++ b/gdb/NEWS @@ -5,6 +5,17 @@ *** Changes in GDB 6.2: +* Fix for ``many threads'' + +On GNU/Linux systems that use the NPTL threads library, a program +rapidly creating and deleting threads would confuse GDB leading to the +error message: + + ptrace: No such process. + thread_db_get_info: cannot get thread info: generic error + +This problem has been fixed. + * "-async" and "-noasync" options removed. Support for the broken "-noasync" option has been removed (it caused -- cgit v1.1