RE: Anyone working on multi-threaded core files for 2.4 ?

[Marty Fouts]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igmar Palsenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

[snip]

> 
> Maybe I'm totally stupid, but I think you need to sync the 
> threads so that
> the're in the same state. And I don't think it's that simple.
> 
> Or I'm talking totally nonsense here :)
> 

I think one needs to be careful of not letting a desire for the perfect
solution prevent deploying a useful solution while working out the best one,
in this case.

When a multithreaded application "dies" due to one of the threads failing in
an unexpected and unrecoverable way, there probably isn't, at that point, a
"same state" for the threads to be in, and an non-coherent dump, while still
difficult to use, is more useful than not dumping any state at all, and
often is coherent enough to use anyway.

Marty
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