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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 15:27:00 -0000
From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
        ""there is always a thread"" (Oct  9, 10:27am)
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To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: "there is always a thread"
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On Oct 9, 10:27am, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> I'm intending simplifying this so that the code can assume that there's 
> always a "thread".

It depends upon the stratum.  dummy_stratum and file_stratum (and
download_stratum?) will have no thread because nothing's running yet.

> A non-threaded app having a single thread 
> corresponding to the main process.

For the other strata, this should be (made to be) true.

A fallout from this change may be that the process_stratum and
thread_stratum can be merged.

Kevin