Issues on linuxthreads

[Jonas Holmberg]

Khem Raj wrote:
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> Carmelo Amoroso wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> recently there have been reported several issues
>> on libpthread segfaulting while running simple application.
>> It has been discovered that users were using linuxthreads implementation
>> instead of (stable ?) linuxthreads.old.
>>
>> I don't know what is the current status of linuxthreadsde developmnet,
>> neither I remember who is doing the development.
>>
>> I don't have currently any time for investigating on this beinf NPTL
>> my target implementation, but as a general rule, at least until somebody
>> will provide a patch for those problems, I'd suggest to all users
>> to *use linuxthreads.old* library.
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> yes that a general suggestion so far.

But don't use fork(2)!

At least not until something has been done about this:
http://uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2008-March/019187.html

/Jonas

> 
>> Anyway, solving the linuxthreads bug is something to be dobe as well.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Carmelo
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