FreeBSD pthread_equal "bug"

[Julian Elischer]

On 4 Jun 2003, Kern Sibbald wrote:

> > that's a bonus ;-)
> 
> This bug does not highlight bad applications because most
> programmers will reasonably expect that pthread_equal() will
> not be the same for two different threads. It took me 
> a long time to find this problem because I just could not
> imagine that pthread_equal() was not "working". 
> This problem is extremely subtle and is likely to cause 
> unsuspecting applications long months of bizarre
> behavior. 

If IDs are recycled after a LONG time
then there is still a chance that the test could go the wrong way
if something held up the tester for a long enough time,
so the behaviour is not "perfect",



> 
> Fix it or not, that is your choice. Now that I know
> that you don't handle it as I would suspect I can code
> around it.

best for now..
it is now on our radar anyhow..
thanks...


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