bin/31661: pthread_kill signal handler doesn't get sigcontext or ucontext

[Daniel Eischen]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Nick Barnes wrote:

> At 2004-02-05 01:03:43+0000, Daniel Eischen writes:
> 
> > See pthread_resume_all_np(3), pthread_resume_np(3), pthread_suspend_all(3),
> > and pthread_suspend_allnp(3) :-)  This is what the native JDK uses for
> > GC.
> 
> Way cool.  Can I get the context (i.e. registers) of a suspended thread?

No, you can get the thread attributes which include the stack base
and addr, see pthread_attr_get_np(3).  The JDK seems to make do
without getting suspended thread context.

-- 
Dan Eischen