Infinite loop bug in libc_r on 4.x with condition variables a nd signals

Ken Smith kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU
Thu Oct 28 16:29:49 PDT 2004


On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:49:28PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:

> re, how about it?

Give me an hour or two, yesterday was the first I saw of this so I
need to research it a bit.  Is that OK?

> >>>>>FWIW, we are having (I think) the same problem on 5.3 with 
> >>>>>libpthread. The
> >>>>>
> >>>>>panic there is in the mutex code about an assertion failing 
> >>>>>because a thread
> >>>>>is on a syncq when it is not supposed to be.

Umm.  Your patch changes only user-level code, correct?  Please tell
me you can only panic a debugging kernel with user-level code issues.

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