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Re: Segmentation fault on NPTL pthread_join
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Tom Gall <tom_gall at vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: ropode at dist dot unige dot it, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:05:22 -0800
- Subject: Re: Segmentation fault on NPTL pthread_join
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0511081722060.30802-100000@polare.laser.dist.unige.it> <20051108185030.GA4873@lucon.org> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511081555530.2198@pacifica>
Tom Gall wrote:
Best thing to perhaps do is create a smaller program demonstrates the
problem and post that here to the list.
The problem is most definitely that an invalid thread descriptor is
passed to the function. This is simply not allowed and can cause
crashes with NPTL while LinuxThreads returned errors. This is a program
bug. No reason to bother anybody else.
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