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[Daniel Eischen]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Doug Rabson wrote:
> >
> > Same error message here when starting neverball. If I map
> > libpthread->libc_r it's working again.
> >
> > xawtv also stopped working. Fortunately setting -xvport manually did
> > fix that.
>
> This might be because libGL calls libpthread's version of open() before
> libpthread has initialised properly. This patch might fix it - it fixes
> neverball's map compiler for me but I haven't actually run neverball
> itself.
>
> Index: thr_open.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_open.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.16
> diff -u -r1.16 thr_open.c
> --- thr_open.c	9 Dec 2003 02:20:56 -0000	1.16
> +++ thr_open.c	15 Aug 2004 09:19:42 -0000
> @@ -45,11 +45,15 @@
>  int
>  __open(const char *path, int flags,...)
>  {
> -	struct pthread *curthread = _get_curthread();
> +	struct pthread *curthread;
>  	int	ret;
>  	int	mode = 0;
>  	va_list	ap;
>
> +	if (_thr_initial == NULL)
> +		_libpthread_init(NULL);
> +
> +	curthread = _get_curthread();

I thought the C++ style constructor in thr_autoinit.c is supposed
to take care of things like this?

-- 
Dan Eischen