More mono + libpthread breakage..

Wed Nov 3 06:21:02 PST 2004

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 05:12:11PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> This kicks in with mono because mono wants to call 
> 'sem_post()' (which is supposed to be signal safe) from a signal handler, but 
> sem_post() calls pthread_mutex_lock() which dies with an assertion error 
> about already being on a syncq since _cond_wait_backout() didn't happen.

Then the correct fix is for sem_post to disable signals around calls to
pthread functions. There are *no* async-signal safe pthread functions.

Cheers.
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