From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 17 20:38:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07099 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 20:38:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA07091 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 20:38:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA02880; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:38:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:38:21 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Tom cc: John Birrell , edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, monty@tcx.se Subject: Re: is libc_r broken in 980520-SNAP (and stable?)? In-Reply-To: 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 I'd stick with the MIT threads if you're using MySQL with -stable. Alleviated many headaches for us. Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Tom wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, John Birrell wrote: > > > The version of libc_r in the RELENG_2_2 contains fixes for all bugs that > > people have reported. In Highwind's case, they have code that did things > > like read/write with zero bytes; and write to a read only file. These > > caused libc_r to hang waiting on a file descriptor to become ready when > > it never would. Most software doesn't do this sort of thing. It seems > > to come from C++ code. 8-) > > Are you aware of the problems with MySQL? I have 2.2.6-stable of May > 21, and a signal/alarm test program (thr_alarm) hangs. > > Also, how should -stable threaded applications be compiled and linked? > You mentioned before that "-pthread" should be used rather than linking > with libc_r? Does that apply to -stable too? I think -stable thread apps > need to be compiled with "-D_THREAD_SAFE" and linked with "-lc_r" but I'm > not sure anymore. > > > -- > > John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ > > CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 > > Tom > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message