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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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John Baldwin wrote:
| On Tuesday 02 November 2004 04:18 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
|
|>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.
|
|
| We're already using the BSD# stuff. :)

Great!

Joe

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