Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:21:11 +1000 From: Tim Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> Cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: weak implementation of threads has problems - kse fix attached Message-ID: <20040608032111.GA43718@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <1086663455.1258.79.camel@server.mcneil.com> References: <1086663455.1258.79.camel@server.mcneil.com>
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On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:57:35PM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote: > > Up front, I'd like to make a few apologies: > > 1) I am sorry for the length of this email. > 2) Although some very valid opinions have been expressed, I respectfully > have to disagree. This email will hopefully strengthen my position. > > The problem: > > (If you just want kse threads to work for you properly, just apply the > patch at the end of this email and try it out). > > kse threads on amd64 doesn't work with gnome. It crashes applications > here and there. gnome-terminal is essentially unusable. > > I strongly believe this to be a binding issue. I've examined rtld and > I'm satisfied that it is behaving appropriately, so I took a long hard > look at how FreeBSD has implemented the pthread interface, how it is > being used, and how people expect it to behave. [...] Your patch looks useful in its own right, but GNOME, Firefox, Mozilla and XMMS have not crashed once for me since I fixed context restoring in libpthread on amd64. Strong references cannot possibly make the old version of context.S work correctly. I would be interested in hearing whether you still have problems with libpthread and GNOME after updating your system, both with and without nss_ldap. Tim
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