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From: "Andrew N. Edmond (Nero)" <edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org>
To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, monty@tcx.se
Subject: is libc_r broken in 980520-SNAP?
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I've been working with Monty at www.tcx.se (makers of MySQL - the best
free SQL database, ever :), and we've been having a very difficult time
with the libc_r in 980520-SNAP (clean install).

Monty writes:

> It looks like the current -lc_r library is broken !
> 
> You can mail some freebsd developer the following test program ?
> This works if not linked with -lc_r.  When linked with -lc_r
> this hangs !
> 
> Doesn't work with: 
> 
> gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lm -lcompat -lcrypt -lc_r
> 
> > cat conftest.c 
> #line 3484 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> /* Exit 0 (true) if wait returns something other than -1,
>    i.e. the pid of the child, which means that wait was restarted
>    after getting the signal.  */
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <signal.h>
> ucatch (isig) { }
> main () {
>   int i = fork (), status;
>   if (i == 0) { sleep (3); kill (getppid (), SIGINT); sleep (3); exit (0); }
>   signal (SIGINT, ucatch);
>   status = wait(&i);
>   if (status == -1) wait(&i);
>   exit (status == -1);
> 
> > cat confdefs.h 
> #define PACKAGE "mysql"
> #define VERSION "3.22.1-alpha"
> #define SYSTEM_TYPE "unknown-freebsd3.0"
> #define MACHINE_TYPE "i386"
> #define PROTOCOL_VERSION 10
> #define DOT_FRM_VERSION 6
> #define HAVE_DIRENT_H 1
> #define STDC_HEADERS 1
> #define HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H 1
> #define HAVE_FCNTL_H 1
> #define HAVE_FLOAT_H 1
> #define HAVE_FLOATINGPOINT_H 1
> #define HAVE_LIMITS_H 1
> #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
> #define HAVE_PWD_H 1
> #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
> #define HAVE_STDDEF_H 1
> #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
> #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
> #define HAVE_SYS_MMAN_H 1
> #define HAVE_SYS_TIMEB_H 1
> #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
> #define HAVE_SYS_UN_H 1
> #define HAVE_SYS_VADVISE_H 1
> #define HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H 1
> #define HAVE_TERM_H 1
> #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
> #define HAVE_UTIME_H 1
> #define HAVE_SCHED_H 1
> #define HAVE_LIBM 1
> #define HAVE_LIBCRYPT 1
> #define HAVE_LIBCOMPAT 1
> 
> 
> Yours,
> Monty

Should I cvsup the new libc_r - or is there a known working version of
this library?

Andy Edmond


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