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Name: Mark Kettenis
Member since: 2000-04-12 14:43:32
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Notes: I spend most of my time hacking on the Hurd, porting packages, and fixing bugs in the Hurd that surface in the process. I also work on GDB (I'm maintainer for the Hurd and the generic x86 target and co-maintainer for Linux/x86). Large part of the code that makes the Hurd POSIX compatible lives in the GNU C Library, so I've contributed my share there too.

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Developer on HURD

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23 Apr 2000 »

I spent the last few days on improving debugging multithreaded programs with GDB under Linux. I now know more of more of the Linux threads implementation than I've ever wanted. And my conclusion is that it's completely broken. There is no other way to stop the program being debugged than to send a SIGSTOP to every sub-process in the program. And of course the kernel doesn't even tell you what those sub-processes are! Next time Linus starts telling that clone() is all you need ...

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