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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:59:00 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mysql: a lot of lost connections...
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001211153809.9131A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012112227060.2983-100000@shark.harmonic.co.il>

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Roman Shterenzon wrote:
> David, I was talking about the libc_r (i.e. "mutex bug") bug and not the
> one discussed in this thread - you were fooled by the subject, sorry for
> not changing it.
> I think that the pthread bug deserves its place in the ERRATA.TXT

One note about the bug:  If you are using POSIX mutexes (which don't
provide hideous recursive mutexes as SUSv2 does), then you should
only be bit by this bug under two circumstances:

  1) the program is flawed and attempts to recursively lock
     a non-recursive mutex without expecting this possibility;
  2) the program attempts to recursively lock a non-recursive
     mutex and expects a proper error message to be returned

-- 
Dan Eischen


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