Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 23:41:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help needed. Deadlock in rtld makes openoffice build hang ag Message-ID: <20020807234046.V58571-100000@levais.imp.ch> In-Reply-To: <200208072132.g77LWOBD058671@vashon.polstra.com>
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Hi, > 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. It's happening in exit() ! The application does hang cause it hangs there. Doesn't that change anything ? Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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