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Re: linuxthreads bug in 2.2.4 under ppc linux
Hi Wolfram,
> This sounds suspiciously like the problem I analyzed for months in
> summer. Are you mixing fork() and threads? That's how I stumbled
> over the problem on Intel. Basically, with glibc-2.2.4 a 'phantom'
> thread can be created and hold locks, with disastrous consequences.
> The fix went in only shortly after 2.2.4 was released.
Yes, in fact this code is playing around with fork() and threads. The
thread in question has just forked a child and moved on to check for the
reap and grab its child's status when the problem hits.
> Please try the current glibc-2.2 branch from CVS, or for example the
> Debian-packaged version of glibc-2.2.4.
Can you pont me to a specific patch that I can check for? I think Franz
said the build tree he based his rpm on was very very recent.
Kevin