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Date:      Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:29:46 -0400
From:      Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Infinite loop bug in libc_r on 4.x with condition variables a nd signals
Message-ID:  <20041028232946.GA10099@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <41817778.4070801@elischer.org>
References:  <41804394.7020306@elischer.org> <41804D8E.2030003@freebsd.org> <41817778.4070801@elischer.org>

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:49:28PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:

> re, how about it?

Give me an hour or two, yesterday was the first I saw of this so I
need to research it a bit.  Is that OK?

> >>>>>FWIW, we are having (I think) the same problem on 5.3 with 
> >>>>>libpthread. The
> >>>>>
> >>>>>panic there is in the mutex code about an assertion failing 
> >>>>>because a thread
> >>>>>is on a syncq when it is not supposed to be.

Umm.  Your patch changes only user-level code, correct?  Please tell
me you can only panic a debugging kernel with user-level code issues.

-- 
						Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu
  there, funny things are everywhere.   |
                      - Theodore Geisel |



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