another gdesklets kse/libc_r problem

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 10:59, Franz Klammer wrote:
> at least under -current i've following threads-problem:
> 
> when a sensor doing  commands.getstatusoutput(cmd)
> out of a thread the first call works like expected, but
> the second call will result in a deadlock (i think).
> what i've found in the last days was that it happens while
> commands.getstatusoutput -> pipe.read()
> 
> if added a print "1.... "+cmd bevore getstatusoutput and
> a print "2 ... "+cmd after. heres the output if i start
> gdesklets from a terminal-window:
> 
> 1 ... /bin/date '+%a %d %b %y'|iconv -t UTF-8
> 2 ... /bin/date '+%a %d %b %y'|iconv -t UTF-8
> 1 ... /bin/date '+%a %d %b %y'|iconv -t UTF-8
> 
> 
> that problem only occours with libc_r but not with libkse.
> 
> also with libc_r a ps fax | grep gdesklets looks like this:
>   80390  p4  S+     0:05,58 python /usr/X11R6/bin/gdesklets
>   80431  p4  S+     0:00,00 python /usr/X11R6/bin/gdesklets
>   80446  p4  S+     0:00,00 python /usr/X11R6/bin/gdesklets
> 
> with libkse there is only one line.
> 
> i'm out of ideas now.

Is this on 5.x?  The more I think about this, the more it sounds like
the "dreaded thread" problem where by -lc_r is not passed to the linker
on all versions of FreeBSD.  gdesklets seems to be safe, but I'm not
sure if this particular sensor needs compiled code.

Joe

> 
> franz.
> 
> 
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