cvs commit: src/lib/libpthread/thread thr_private.h thr_sig.c

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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John Baldwin wrote:
| On Monday 01 November 2004 06:04 pm, David Xu wrote:
|
|>Not every important,  I think I have another very important history
|>bug in hand,  did you get my "fix famous libpthread conditional
|>variable race condition" mail ? :-)
|
|
| Oooo, can I test it please?  We are still having problems with mono on
HEAD
| here at work.  I tried merging the changes in uthread_cond.c 1.32 to
| libpthread but that seemed to make it worse.  The problems seem to be
that a
| signal handler is being run when the SYNCQ sflag is set (but the
thread is
| not on a cv or a mutex queue), and the handler calls sem_post() which is
| supposed to be signal safe.  sem_post() tries to lock a mutex and then
bombs
| with the assertion failure.

This is a bit off-topic, but if you're working on Mono, you may want to
talk with Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org>.  He's created a
BSD# project, and has been working on the various Mono and C# ports for
FreeBSD.  I'm sure he would be very interested in any Mono work you're
doing.

Joe


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