cannot use it since GDB must work on older systems too.
- When a traced, cloned process exits and is waited for by the
- debugger, the kernel reassigns it to the origional parent and
+ debugger, the kernel reassigns it to the original parent and
keeps it around as a "zombie". Somehow, the LinuxThreads library
doesn't notice this, which leads to the "zombie problem": When
debugged a multi-threaded process that spawns a lot of threads
/* Since we cannot wait (in lin_lwp_wait) for the initial process and
any cloned processes with a single call to waitpid, we have to use
- use the WNOHANG flag and call waitpid in a loop. To optimize
+ the WNOHANG flag and call waitpid in a loop. To optimize
things a bit we use `sigsuspend' to wake us up when a process has
something to report (it will send us a SIGCHLD if it has). To make
this work we have to juggle with the signal mask. We save the
- origional signal mask such that we can restore it before creating a
+ original signal mask such that we can restore it before creating a
new process in order to avoid blocking certain signals in the
inferior. We then block SIGCHLD during the waitpid/sigsuspend
loop. */
-/* Origional signal mask. */
+/* Original signal mask. */
static sigset_t normal_mask;
/* Signal mask for use with sigsuspend in lin_lwp_wait, initialized in
trap_pid = 0;
- /* Restore the origional signal mask. */
+ /* Restore the original signal mask. */
sigprocmask (SIG_SETMASK, &normal_mask, NULL);
sigemptyset (&blocked_mask);
add_target (&lin_lwp_ops);
thread_db_init (&lin_lwp_ops);
- /* Save the origional signal mask. */
+ /* Save the original signal mask. */
sigprocmask (SIG_SETMASK, NULL, &normal_mask);
action.sa_handler = sigchld_handler;