Nagios and threads

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Jun 22 16:33:59 GMT 2005


In message: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0506221027490.22792-100000 at sea.ntplx.net>
            Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org> writes:
: We do protect the malloc lock across a fork(), but that's it.

With 4.x libc_r, you could easily get hangs accross a fork() if you
did anything before the exec (like setup fd's for stdin/out).  This
was due to internal libc_r state being inconsistant.

Warner


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