Question about rtld-elf. Anyone?.. Anyone?

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Wed Apr 30 17:32:06 PDT 2003


What would be cool would be a signal handler for SIGUSR1
or something that dumps out (to somewhere) a full thread state table.


On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > As an experiment, I made the dlfoo calls in rtld-elf weak
> > (__dlfoo -> dlfoo) and then overrode them in libpthread
> > and protected them with mutexes.
> > 
> > I can get mozilla to work about 1/2 of the time now, but
> > it still gets stuck in the same state the other 1/2 of
> > the time.  This is a bit of an improvement, and seems to
> > indicate (at least to me) that rtld-elf is the culprit.
> 
> 
> Is there maybe a way to get the thread that was running when
> the process was involuntarily preempted run first, instead of
> running it based on priority?  Netscape, at least, made this
> assumption for Java and Javascript pages.
> 
> Alternately, you may try disabling Java* in Mozilla, and see
> if that keeps you from crashing.
> 
> Also try not moving the mouse until everything is loaded, and
> see if that saves you, too.
> 
> -- Terry
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