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Re: openoffice 1.0.1 vs glibc cvs
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 15:31, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Do you happen to have Blackdown JDK installed on your machine.
> I just checked with Kevin Hendricks about this and he believes
> we may be seeing a jdk failure due to __libc_wait being private
> to glibc now in 2.3.x. This symbol is needed by JDK 1.3.1 to
> properly catch all of the sigchild signals for its fork/exec code.
> Kevin says if they call the regular wait in the signal handler, it
> is wrappered by the pthread library and becomes a pthread
> cancellation point which causes us to drop sigchild on occaission.
> This symbol was being used to work around non-posix pthread signal
> handling in Linux.
Nope. On my laptop I have nothing but Red Hat 8.0 packages installed,
and I see this problem.
I do have Sun's JDK 1.4.1 installed on my workstation, though.
Robert Love