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Date:      Wed, 25 May 2005 06:10:10 GMT
From:      David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: gnu/77818: GDB locks in wait4() when running applications
Message-ID:  <200505250610.j4P6AAnN016061@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR gnu/77818; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org, sean-freebsd@farley.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gnu/77818: GDB locks in wait4() when running applications
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 14:08:51 +0800

 >
 >
 > I have a new test program[1] that I think shows the problem.  My
 > previous program actually showed another bug that has since been fixed.
 > Actually, it shows two problems.  When run within the debugger
 > (SHELL=3D/bin/sh gdb a.out), the parent will be stuck waiting for a signal
 > it will never receive in sigsuspend().
 >
 
 Please try following patch, I believe the old  hack is incorrect now 
 with jhb's sleep queue.
 
 Index: kern_thread.c
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/kern_thread.c,v
 retrieving revision 1.215
 diff -u -r1.215 kern_thread.c
 --- kern_thread.c    23 Apr 2005 02:32:31 -0000    1.215
 +++ kern_thread.c    25 May 2005 06:01:00 -0000
 @@ -929,14 +929,6 @@
      p->p_suspcount++;
      TD_SET_SUSPENDED(td);
      TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&p->p_suspended, td, td_runq);
 -    /*
 -     * Hack: If we are suspending but are on the sleep queue
 -     * then we are in msleep or the cv equivalent. We
 -     * want to look like we have two Inhibitors.
 -     * May already be set.. doesn't matter.
 -     */
 -    if (TD_ON_SLEEPQ(td))
 -        TD_SET_SLEEPING(td);
  }
  
  void
 
 > The other problem is that nanosleep() is exiting immediately with a
 > return of zero although the time to sleep has not passed.  To see it do
 > this, remove the BROKEN_NANOSLEEP_WITHIN_GDB definition at the top of
 > the program and recompile.
 >
 
 This is a long history bug, I believe it is still in RELENG_4. Now the 
 bug is in
 kern_sig.c: do_tdsignal(), when process is being debugged, a masked 
 signal can wake up
 a sleeping thread! that's why it is broken.
 
 David Xu
 



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