And here's the modified patch for socketio.cxx

Dave Brolley wrote:

> Approved by fche and committed with the attached modification to 
> ensure that all data gets flushed.
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> Dave Brolley wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Debugging multiple cores with multiple instances of GDB within a 
>> simulation is currently possible by specifying a separate --gdb 
>> option after each --board and specifying a different port for each 
>> GDB instance. The simulation ends (as it does without GDB) when the 
>> first core exits. However, the other GDB instances all report 
>> "Watchdog expired.  Target disconnected". This was because of three 
>> problems:
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>> 1) The "enabled?", "enable-threshold",  "yield-host-time?" and 
>> "yield-host-time-threshold" of the host scheduler were not being set. 
>> This caused the host scheduler to yield host time after the first GDB 
>> stub exited.
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>> 2) The other GDB stubs were not properly notifying their GDB clients 
>> that they were exiting
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>> 3) Even after proper notfication and yielding were implemented, the 
>> packets never reached their GDB clients because their socket 
>> components were never polled again which was because the host 
>> scheduler was never advanced again which was because the whole shut 
>> down process was initiated when the first GDB stub drove main's 
>> "stop!" pin. This problem is corrected by having the sockets do one 
>> final transmit when their "fini" pins are driven by shutdown-sequence.
>>
>> The result is an orderly shutdown of the GDB stubs and their clients.
>>
>> OK to commit?
>>
>> Dave
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