Re: [perfmon2] important pfmon fixes

2008-12-18 Thread stephane eranian
Phil, On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Philip Mucci wrote: > Hey, sounds interesting. Can you describe this for us geeks? > > Phil > > On Dec 18, 2008, at 10:54 AM, stephane eranian wrote: > >> There was a problem with how breakpoints were inherited across fork >> and pthread_create. Fixing it w

Re: [perfmon2] important pfmon fixes

2008-12-18 Thread Philip Mucci
Hey, sounds interesting. Can you describe this for us geeks? Phil On Dec 18, 2008, at 10:54 AM, stephane eranian wrote: > There was a problem with how breakpoints were inherited across fork > and pthread_create. Fixing it was not easy as there is a race > condition > in the way a new thread/pr

[perfmon2] important pfmon fixes

2008-12-18 Thread stephane eranian
Hello, Today, I have fixed some important issues in pfmon. They were related to --follow-*, dlopen hooks, trigger breakpoints support. Sometimes, you would get: '[xxx] interrupted @0x. for unknown reason' And pfmon would hang. There was a problem with how breakpoints were inherited ac