[mythtv] howto? gdb trace

Daniel Kristjansson danielk at cuymedia.net
Sat Feb 4 18:00:56 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 12:39 -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:

> > If you left out the noprint, then it would print out gobs of
> > SIG33's if you had a broken glibc, but at most one or two at
> > startup if you had a working glibc.
> 
> The sig33 handler is in there because without it, we got too many backtraces 
> stopping at that first sig33 signal, and not continuing on.

I don't think we need to change the instructions. All the major distros
fixed the glibc problem many moons ago.

It might have made sense to use:
  handle SIG33 nostop
rather than
  handle SIG33 nostop noprint
when Gentoo still had their longstanding glibc problem.

-- Daniel



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