Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:40:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mb@imp.ch Subject: Re: Help needed. Deadlock in rtld makes openoffice build hang ag Message-ID: <200208072140.g77LeL2b000769@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20020807231439.F58571-100000@levais.imp.ch> <200208072132.g77LWOBD058671@vashon.polstra.com>
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:In article <20020807231439.F58571-100000@levais.imp.ch>,
:Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> 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
If it's a matter of one thread hogging the cpu and the other (which
holds the lock) not being able to run to completion, maybe putting
the sleep back in would work.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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