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From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: threaded, forked, rethreaded processes will deadlock
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It appears that the post-fork hooks for malloc(3) are somewhat broken such that
when a threaded program forks, and then its child attempts to go threaded, it
deadlocks because it already appears to have locks held.  I am not familiar
enough with the current libthr/libc/rtld-elf interaction that I've been able
to fix it myself, unfortunately.

I discovered this today upgrading my work box from 7.0 to 7.1, but I can easily
reproduce it at home on a stale -CURRENT as well.  Testing on an OS X box to make
sure, the regression test does exit 0 there.

Has anyone happened to have fixed this already locally?

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