Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 --- gdb-6.3.org/gdb/gdbserver/thread-db.c 2004-10-17 02:42:00.000000000 +0900
2 +++ gdb-6.3/gdb/gdbserver/thread-db.c 2005-01-27 12:19:29.000000000 +0900
4 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
5 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
10 #include "linux-low.h"
14 struct inferior_linux_data *tdata;
18 fprintf (stderr, "Thread creation event.\n");
20 In the LinuxThreads implementation, this is safe,
21 because all events come from the manager thread
22 (except for its own creation, of course). */
23 - err = td_ta_event_getmsg (thread_agent, &msg);
24 + for (timeout = 0; timeout < 50000; timeout++)
26 + err = td_ta_event_getmsg (thread_agent, &msg);
27 + if (err != TD_NOMSG)
32 fprintf (stderr, "thread getmsg err: %s\n",
33 thread_db_err_str (err));