Call for thread testers

[Gordon Tetlow]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:05:24PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:05:28AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > 
> > > The questions that I would like to have answered are:
> > > 
> > > Does it take advantage of pthreads
> > Yes.
> > > Does it work with libkse and libthr
> > Sort of.
> > > Does it operate correctly
> > libthr: tends to segfault (sig11). Occasional DNS resolution issues.
> > libkse: tends to segfault (sig11), I've gotten my box to crash
> > 	once too (BAD!).  ^C still doesn't kill the process. 
> > 	Occasional DNS resolution issues. Here's the output from the
> > 	console:
> > 
> > Aug 27 10:22:41 Privoxy(134991872) Request: images.slashdot.org/greendot.gif
> > Aug 27 10:22:41 Privoxy(134979584) Request: images.slashdot.org/pix.gif
> > Aug 27 10:22:46 Privoxy(135041024) Error: could not resolve hostname images.slashdot.org
> > ^^^^--- This is bad, I have no problems resolving this normally.
> > ^CAug 27 10:22:56 Privoxy(135163904) Info: exiting by signal 2 .. bye
> 
> How old is your kernel?  SCHED_ULE or SCHED_4BSD?

FreeBSD roark.gnf.org 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Thu Aug 21 09:39:38 PDT 2003     gtetlow at roark.gnf.org:/local/usr.obj/local/usr.src/sys/ROARK  i386

SCHED_4BSD

> It could be that name resolution is giving it problems because
> it's not thread-safe (in libc)...

Probably, but it is still a problem that needs to be addressed. Is it
possible to wrap the resolver in a umtx or some such other structure?

-gordon
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