meeting 2006-12-05

meeting 2006-12-05

[Andrew Cagney]

- step (mcvet, mjw)
- breakpoint (timoore, mjw)
- doc (?)
- other
- holidays

Re: meeting 2006-12-05

[Stan Cox]

Testing
Most failures are due to build tree versus install tree testing.

Kernel
218404 zombied process now has tasks/ not a bug (close, cagney)
218405 /proc/PID/task lags behind thread exit and join
	main thread thinks subthreads are gone.
	/proc info is probably lagging.
	Explicitly check for thread status
217433 'X' state of un-joined thread no longer occurs
	Similar to 218405
218410  non-main task's exited status lost when tracing
	Special semantics for sigchild.  The thread about to stop sends a
	sigchild to the parent but there is a delay until this is visible with
	a wait so that nohang doesn't hang.  Difference in behavior is possibly
	luck.  Event loop implemented using SIGCHILD.  Could also use SIGIO,
	but this is not how it is implemented. (roland evaluation)
217809  waitpid hangs on dieing process
	regression test would help but testcase may be as good as we will get.
216150  waitpid returns WIFSIGNALED instead of WIFEXITED
	roland has a fix
jankratochvil is available for looking at libelf bugs.

Stepping
step over/step out (mcvet)
Meeting (cagney, mjw, mcvet)

Breakpoints
hpd support added for breakpoints.
gui support (timoore)
	
Commands	
core refactoring (pmuldoon)
fstack unmangling,dejagnu (npremji)

Docs 
doc plan (rmoseley)

Misc	
console window still locks up
-doesn't lock up on FC6, but doesn't work
unmangling (scox)