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Date:      Wed, 7 Aug 2002 23:41:37 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Help needed. Deadlock in rtld makes openoffice build hang ag
Message-ID:  <20020807234046.V58571-100000@levais.imp.ch>
In-Reply-To: <200208072132.g77LWOBD058671@vashon.polstra.com>

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Hi,

> 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.

It's happening in exit() ! The application does hang cause it hangs
there.

Doesn't that change anything ?

Martin


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