Patent ID: 8762954
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for event management in a non-stop debugging environment, the non-stop debugging environment comprising a debugger configured to debug a debuggee comprising a plurality of threads of execution, wherein encountering an event by one of threads stops execution of only the one thread without concurrently stopping execution of other threads, the apparatus comprising a computer processor and a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of: encountering, by a first thread, an event that stops execution of the first thread; while execution of the first thread is stopped, encountering, by each of one or more other threads, an event stopping execution of the other thread; queuing, by the debugger, the events stopping execution of the other threads; receiving, by the debugger from a user, an indication to flush one or more events from the queue; responsive to receiving the indication from the user to flush one or more events from the queue, flushing, by the debugger, the one or more events from the queue; receiving, by the debugger from the user, an indication of an event blocked from queuing, wherein: encountering, by each of one or more other threads, an event stopping execution of the other thread further comprises encountering, by a second thread, the event blocked from queuing, the event stopping execution of the second thread; queuing, by the debugger, the events stopping execution of the other threads further comprises not queuing the event blocked from queuing; receiving, by the debugger, user input requesting a change in perspective of a graphical user interface (‘GUI’) presented by the debugger to information describing the second thread stopped by the event blocked from queuing; and changing, by the debugger, the perspective to the information describing the second thread.