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Subject: Re: gnu/77818: GDB locks in wait4() when running applications
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The following reply was made to PR gnu/77818; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Se=E1n_C=2E_Farley?= <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
To: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: gnu/77818: GDB locks in wait4() when running applications
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:41:14 -0500 (CDT)

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 On Wed, 25 May 2005, David Xu wrote:
 
 >> 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=3D3D/bin/sh gdb a.out), the parent will be stuck
 >> waiting for a signal it will never receive in sigsuspend().
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 >
 > Please try following patch, I believe the old hack is incorrect now
 > with jhb's sleep queue.
 
 <patch snip>
 
 Thank you, thank you!  That fixes my bug.
 
 >> 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.
 
 Is it fixable?  Should I open a PR for it, or is there one already?
 
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