Re: x86: only single-step into signal handlers if the tracer

From: Alexander Nyberg
Date: Mon Nov 15 2004 - 07:11:44 EST


> > This reminds me of a problem I am seeing under recent -bk kernels.
> >
> > Mozilla (FC2) will freeze (no screen redraws, etc.). 'ps xf' shows
> > mozilla sleeping. If I strace the process, Mozilla will un-freeze and
> > continue as expected.
> >
>
> Presumably the futex thing:
>

This patch seems to fix it for me, recently various programs have got
stuck in pthread_condition_wait (this on x86-64).

When that happened I did gdb --pid and then 'continue' which made it
wake up.

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