From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 6 9:18:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7310237B40C for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:18:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f66GIAD61923; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:18:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f66GI5L15965; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:18:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200107061618.f66GI5L15965@vashon.polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: lamont@scriptkiddie.org Subject: Re: bpf/libpcap and pthreads In-Reply-To: <20010706010251.W94746-100000@warez.scriptkiddie.org> References: <20010706010251.W94746-100000@warez.scriptkiddie.org> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20010706010251.W94746-100000@warez.scriptkiddie.org>, Lamont Granquist wrote: > > i've got a program where i'm trying to use libpcap in a posix thread and > the thread is failing to get any data back. i've tried writing a sample > program which was non-threaded and then simply linking with -pthread and > linking that way seems to interfere with bpf/libpcap. i'm running on > 4.3-STABLE and tried it on a build which was a few months old, and just > tried again with a cvsup from a few hours ago (Jul 5 2001 22:00:00 or > so). > > is there a known incompatibility between bpf/libpcap and pthreads? anyone > have any notions of what is going wrong here? (is it possible that bpf is > having problems waking up the thread waiting on i/o?) This sounds like a bug I fixed in -current some time ago. I thought I merged the fix into -stable, but maybe not. I'll check later on today. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message