Re: Bug with popen/pthread_create

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>]

On Thu, Feb 06, Neal H. Walfield wrote:

> > This does not matter. This is no real world program, this is a short
> > example which triggers the bug. That's everything.
> 
> No, fix your buggy program: pthread_wait for threads who have not
> finished before returning from main or calling exit.  That's
> everything.

I think you don't understand the problem: pthread_create() does
not return, the printf() in the main function is never called and
the program never exits. This is a critical bug in glibc. I don't
care if the thread itself prints it message or not. The program is
fine to trigger the bug.

But if you think the test program is buggy, you can send me the 
patch so that it works?

  Thorsten

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