libpthread and gdbserver

[David Xu]

Julian Elischer wrote:
> just saw youe email to freebsd-threads...
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> But pt_ta_map_lwp2thr() internally calls pt_ta_map_id2thr() in
> libthr_db.c so 'pid to tid' conversion is missing.
> If FreeBsd intends to keep it this way, I will have to modify gdbserver
> to not use 'pid' to find threads as Linux does.
> Can someone shed some light on this? Am I mailing the correct
> mailing-list with these queries?
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> you might try directly mailing davidxu or marcel or jhb (all 
> @freebsd.org). they SHOULD have seen that posting but may not have..
> 
> jhb is I think away for a few days.
>  but was doing stuff with the debugger quite recently.
> 

Our thread has its kernel thread id, it is called lwpid, this is not
linux like pid, I know linux thread is a special process.