From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 7 14:32:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F93D37B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:32:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 848D743E6A for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:32:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g77LWOf14621; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:32:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@vashon.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g77LWOBD058671; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:32:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200208072132.g77LWOBD058671@vashon.polstra.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: mb@imp.ch Subject: Re: Help needed. Deadlock in rtld makes openoffice build hang ag In-Reply-To: <20020807231439.F58571-100000@levais.imp.ch> References: <20020807231439.F58571-100000@levais.imp.ch> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20020807231439.F58571-100000@levais.imp.ch>, Martin Blapp wrote: > > I'd just need a workaround for building OO.org on this cluster. > > Can I remove the locking stuff just for this ? What would be the effect of > this ? The effect would be unpredictable. When it hangs, it hangs because two threads are trying to get the lock at the same time. Without the locking, it wouldn't hang. But the changes one thread was making to the rtld's data structures might cause the other thread to follow an invalid pointer and crash the whole application. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message