[plug] odd file manager hangs

[James Devenish]

In message <41231755.80906 at postnewspapers.com.au>
on Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:46:13PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> James Devenish wrote:
> > So...you say that 25841 is "not doing anything"? Is it doing a different
> > type of "nothing" to all the other children of 25840?
> Yes. When attaching strace to the other threads/processes, I get 
> absolutely no output. This may be normal for threads; I really don't know.

BTW, I had failed to understand that the 'processes' might have been
threads. If there's one thing that sh*ts be about *both* Linux and the
BSDs, it's the process-analysis, process-management and code-debugging
utilities. The use of gdb, for instance, really aggravates me. I can
intuitively understand Why It Is So, and that Solaris has an "unfair
advantage" by coping only with a tiny number of platforms. However, the
fact that Linux and BSDs are driven so much by developers makes me
astounded that the developers themselves don't give each other more
satisfaction (ewwww). I suppose that supporting the luxuries must be
so non-trivial as to be impractical.