Re: Debugger under Solaris

[David Laight]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 09:17:09AM +1000, Robert Lunnon wrote:
> I need some help to implement the debugger under Solaris. In particular I need 
> help with how ptrace interacts with the threading model under Linux which I 
> understand uses processes for threads. Since Solaris has user mode threads, 
> stopping a pid stops all the threads in the debugee which used to deadlock 
> the debugger. This suggests I need to operate on threads within processes 
> rather than the processes themselves. This is possible with a few IPC tricks, 
> but I need to understand the semantics

I think you will find that solaris uses kernel LWPs for threads.
If you give ps the correct incantation it wil show them.

David