Libthr stable enough for testing

Glenn Johnson glennpj at charter.net
Wed May 28 19:57:44 PDT 2003


On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 06:51:10PM -0400, Mike Makonnen wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> Most major locking work in libthr is finished. I believe it is stable
> enough now that it can be used for most applications[1]. I would
> appreciate it if people would try it out and report any bugs.
> 
> [1] - I haven't had a chance to test it on an SMP machine. The machine I was
>         going to use crashed for unrelated reasons, but it should be
>         back up soon. Never the less I would be interested to hear
>         from people who have "real world" threaded applications on SMP
>         systems.

It seems to be working fine on a UP machine but it locks up my SMP
machine just trying to load a gnome session.  It leaves an image on the
screen but the keyboard and mouse stop responding and I can not ssh into
the box.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj at charter.net


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