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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Cc: Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de>,
	 "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] gdb/Windows: Fix detach while running
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:02:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878r1e36gc.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <625b2dbb-6cb8-40dd-b7d0-fbce48cb5436@palves.net> (Pedro Alves's message of "Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:41:47 +0100")

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net> writes:

Pedro> Still in windows_nat_target::detach, we have an interesting issue that
Pedro> ends up being the bulk of the patch -- only the process_thread thread
Pedro> can call DebugActiveProcessStop, but if it is blocked in
Pedro> WaitForDebugEvent, we need to somehow force it to break out of it.
Pedro> The only way to do that, is to force the inferior to do something that
Pedro> causes WaitForDebugEvent to return some event.

I generally like the Windows debug API but I can't really understand why
they didn't integrate WaitForDebugEvent with WaitForMultipleObjects --
it seems like such an obvious thing to do and it would have saved so
many headaches.

I didn't read the patch in too much detail, but I did look over it and I
read through the explanation.  It all makes sense to me.

I was wondering if something similar is needed for gdbserver?
I assume not though.

Reviewed-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-15 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-11 20:03 [PATCH] " Pedro Alves
2024-04-12 10:56 ` Hannes Domani
2024-04-12 13:41   ` [PATCH v2] " Pedro Alves
2024-04-15 17:02     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2024-04-17 17:57       ` Pedro Alves
2024-04-17 18:18       ` Pedro Alves

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