From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 10 14:32:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03884 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:32:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA03876 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:32:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0z5zYG-00037l-00; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:32:25 -0700 Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:32:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: HighWind Software Information cc: gilem@wsg.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: threads bug In-Reply-To: <199808102103.RAA27314@highwind.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, HighWind Software Information wrote: > Anyone have details on that libc_r.a problem with Mysql. We (at > HighWind) have had a few issues with libc_r and John Birrell has been > fast to address them. mysql hangs upon giving it a shutdown command. It doesn't seem to spinning, as CPU usage is low. mysql requires a kill -9 to stop. > HOWEVER, we still have some nagging problem calling "pthread_create" > where the call never returns and the application starts spinning at > and getting nowhere. > > Looks like we nuked the threads scheduler or something like that. > We are trying to isolate it to a test program. However, it is difficult > since the application is complex. Well, the thr_alarm test program in mysql exhibits the same problem as mysql. However, the mysql problem appears to be signal handling. > Rob Fleischman Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message