does it make sense to stop on SIGPRIO?
Michael Snyder
msnyder@vmware.com
Wed Jan 5 18:23:00 GMT 2011
Joel Brobecker wrote:
> I've been looking at how we decide what to when we receive a signal.
> We have some code that disables stop&printing for various signals
> because these signals are used as part of normal thread operations.
>
> /* These signals are used internally by user-level thread
> implementations. (See signal(5) on Solaris.) Like the above
> signals, a healthy program receives and handles them as part of
> its normal operation. */
>
> We do the same for other signals, which are not error signals:
>
> /* Signals that are not errors should not normally enter the debugger. */
>
> On LynxOS, changing the priority of a thread automatically causes
> a SIGPRIO signal to be raised. I think that SIGPRIO falls more
> into the second category (not a signal used to indicate an error).
>
> Are there any known situations where we would want a SIGPRIO would
> be indicating something abnormal, or significant enough that we would
> want to stop?
>
> Thanks,
I think it might be peculiar to LynxOS. Most google hits either refer
to gdb or Lynx.
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