On Oct 13, 2005, at 9:32 PM, Vincent wrote:

> Bill,
>
> thanks for taking the time to detail this. That's *very* kind of  
> you. Last question then: what is the purpose of libpthread_debug?  
> Debugging the library itself?

that library is for the benefit of gdb -- it provides access to the  
internals of the thread library so that gdb can debug threaded programs.

>
>
> Cheers and thanks a lot again
> Vincent

-- thorpej