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Re: [RFC] "a number of longstanding race condition bugs present in glibc"
- From: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>
- To: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 14:34:40 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFC] "a number of longstanding race condition bugs present in glibc"
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 01:08:59PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 02:25:42PM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> > Hi Rich,
> >
> > Chatting with Siddhesh and Carlos, they told me GLIBC does have some issues condition variables
> > (I need to check if there is a BZ for that), and also the sem_post issue. Are these the the
> > "a number of longstanding race condition bugs present in glibc" you cited at
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTYyMzM ?
>
> There may be a few more I'm forgetting.
One I left out:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14485
I've also polished the list slightly into a blog post:
http://ewontfix.com/16/
Rich