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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:44:05 -0400
From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:40:01PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Ken Smith wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:49:28PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> > > re, how about it?
> >
> > Give me an hour or two, yesterday was the first I saw of this so I
> > need to research it a bit.  Is that OK?
> >
> > > >>>>>FWIW, we are having (I think) the same problem on 5.3 with
> > > >>>>>libpthread. The
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>>panic there is in the mutex code about an assertion failing
> > > >>>>>because a thread
> > > >>>>>is on a syncq when it is not supposed to be.
> >
> > Umm.  Your patch changes only user-level code, correct?  Please tell
> > me you can only panic a debugging kernel with user-level code issues.
> 
> User-level panic by some assertions in libpthread which are caused
> by a race condition that this patch closes.
> 

Thank you.  We use the word 'panic' for too many things one of which
is much scarier than others.

-- 
						Ken Smith
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