On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 04:15:50PM -0500, Dave McCracken wrote:
> --On Friday, August 17, 2001 22:55:37 +0200 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> >Also gtop should display correct results even with the programs
> >that don't use CLONE_THREAD.
>
> Are there any programs that use CLONE_VM and not CLONE_THREAD?
Yes, I have written an emulation layer for an embedded OS which
does its own preemptive scheduling using signals. It uses CLONE_VM
but not CLONE_THREAD or CLONE_SIGHAND. Currently it is very
painful to debug with gdb :-(, although the multithreaded core
dumps in -ac are a godsend.
miket
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