threads/119920: fork broken in libpthread

Landon Fuller landonf at bikemonkey.org
Thu Jan 31 11:36:49 PST 2008


On Jan 31, 2008, at 11:31, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Landon Fuller wrote:
>> The children processes spin (in either sigprocmask() or  
>> _lockuser_reinit()), and the parent process thread wedges on  
>> waitpid().
>
> so if the children show up in top at all (usually they are already  
> exited by the time top looks) then the problem has been hit. right?

Exactly. With the test case's default number of threads, one should  
see up to four children appear in top, eating CPU.
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