mysterious hang in pthread_create

[Kostik Belousov]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:17:46PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 01/09/2008 14:12 Kostik Belousov said the following:
> > On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 01:53:23PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
...
> >>>>> The following silly patch fixes the problem Andriy encountered:
> >>>> I can confirm - this fixed the issue for me.
> >>>> David, thanks!
> >>> Does libc_r still work with patch applied ?
> >> In what sense?
> >> The test program that I posted seems to hang in both cases (patched and 
> >> unpatched rtld).
> > 
> > The David' patch changes the code used to support libc_r operations.
> > Even on CURRENT, if you run 4.x-compiled binary with the support of
> > compat-4x libraries, this code from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 (installed
> > by CURRENT buildworld) provides locking for rtld.
> 
> I understand, but I am not sure what exactly needs to be tested.
> "Still works" is too broad in this context.

I am not sure too. As I said, this one of the reason I prefered to not
touch that code.
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