How to get all threads of a definite process?

How to get all threads of a definite process?

[fei ding]

Hi, everyone:

I want to get all threads of one definite process, and I've found some
data structure such as 'all_threads', which is not what I want, i
guess. I don't understand the relationship between process and thread,
from the gdb-source-code-level (pointers for example),  and I don't
understand the meaning of 'ptid_t', does this mean 'process_thread_id'
? and I've found this data's value is not the thread's PID that Linux
shell tell me, it just some number like 0 or 1.

If you know something about this, please help me. Thanks.

BR.

Re: How to get all threads of a definite process?

[fei ding]

BTW, I am talking about gdbserver, Thanks

2015-02-06 14:14 GMT+08:00 fei ding <fdingiit@gmail.com>:
> Hi, everyone:
>
> I want to get all threads of one definite process, and I've found some
> data structure such as 'all_threads', which is not what I want, i
> guess. I don't understand the relationship between process and thread,
> from the gdb-source-code-level (pointers for example),  and I don't
> understand the meaning of 'ptid_t', does this mean 'process_thread_id'
> ? and I've found this data's value is not the thread's PID that Linux
> shell tell me, it just some number like 0 or 1.
>
> If you know something about this, please help me. Thanks.
>
> BR.

Re: How to get all threads of a definite process?

[Doug Evans]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:15 PM, fei ding <fdingiit@gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW, I am talking about gdbserver, Thanks
>
> 2015-02-06 14:14 GMT+08:00 fei ding <fdingiit@gmail.com>:
>> Hi, everyone:
>>
>> I want to get all threads of one definite process, and I've found some
>> data structure such as 'all_threads', which is not what I want, i
>> guess. I don't understand the relationship between process and thread,
>> from the gdb-source-code-level (pointers for example),  and I don't
>> understand the meaning of 'ptid_t', does this mean 'process_thread_id'
>> ? and I've found this data's value is not the thread's PID that Linux
>> shell tell me, it just some number like 0 or 1.

You'll need to clarify. ptid_t is a struct of three values,
it is not "just some number like 0 or 1".

>>
>> If you know something about this, please help me. Thanks.

ptid_t is the type gdb uses internally to identify both processes and threads.
Its API is defined in gdb/common/ptid.[ch].

There is ptid_match() which could be given a process ptid for the filter,
and then you just need to iterate over all_threads, e.g. with
for_each_inferior_with_data, for threads that match (IOW for threads
that have the same process id).