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Re: Fwd: problems with linuxthreads under your latest glibc 15C rpms
- To: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Subject: Re: Fwd: problems with linuxthreads under your latest glibc 15C rpms
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: 31 Jul 2000 17:30:33 +0200
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com,"Kevin B. Hendricks" <khendricks at ivey dot uwo dot ca>
- References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000728154143.03925220@mail.lauterbach.com>
>>>>> Franz Sirl writes:
> Hi,
> this is a heads-up notice for distribution maintainers using the
> glibc-2-1-branch. It seems the branch contains a threads bug
> introduced with:
> 2000-03-16 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
> * mutex.c (__pthread_mutex_lock): Always initialize __m_owner.
> (__pthread_mutex_trylock): Likewise.
> (__pthread_mutex_unlock): Always clear __m_owner.
> Check the appended message for details. I've added the patch to my
> source tree, maybe someone finds time to check it in into the branch
> (yes, I know that the branch is more or less dead :-) ).
I've checked it into the branch now.
Kevin, could you please send patches directly to libc-alpha - or use
the glibcbug script?
Thanks,
Andreas
2000-07-31 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
* mutex.c (__pthread_mutex_trylock): Only set mutex owner if we
really own it.
Patch by Kevin B. Hendricks" <khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca>.
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