Date: 7 Aug 1999 05:10:41 -0000 From: mark@tgsoft.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/13008: kill fails in libc_r Message-ID: <19990807051041.91863.qmail@moose.tgsoft.com>
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>Number: 13008
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: pthread_kill does not always work
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Aug 6 22:20:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: mark thompson
>Release: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
tgsoft
>Environment:
3.2 stable pthread library
>Description:
I wrote an application that worked basically like this:
main:
create a socket
create 10 threads
run for a while, then:
send each thread a signal with pthread_kill and wait for it in
pthread_join.
when one thread has been waited for, go back and kill the next one
exit
Each thread (in a loop):
does an accept on the socket
copies some data
closes the data socket
repeats
The problem:
Waiting in pthread_join was not fruitful. Examination shows that
*most* of the threads that are in 'accept' were waiting for
the a lock on the socket (state: PS_FDLR_WAIT) and pthread_kill
does not do anything to them. One lucky thread would be in PS_FDR_WAIT,
and it could be killed... but it is hard for my application to know
which thread that is.
>How-To-Repeat:
Sorry, no sample code. I have hacked up the application to the
point that it is no longer recognizeable.
>Fix:
pthread_kill probably needs to know how to kill processes that
are waiting for file locks.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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