I just removed the extra debug line in queue.h
that set the "next" pointer to -1 then the element was removed.
Since I was told that the problem still occurs with an old queue.h
I don;t think that that will fix it but we might as well try it
again with this change.

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> > In article <local.mail.freebsd-current/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>you write:
> > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ju
> > >lian Elischer writes:
> > >>The big problem at the moment is that something in the 
> > >>source tree as a whole, and probably something that came in with KSE
> > >>is stopping us from successfully compiling a working libc_r.
> > >>(a bit ironic really).
> > >
> > >Is the new
> > >
> > >   (elm)->field.tqe_next = (void *)-1;
> > >
> > >in TAILQ_REMOVE a likely candidate? That could easily tickle old
> > >bugs in other code. The libc_r code does use a lot of TAILQ macros.
> > 
> > >From casual inspection of the sources, it appears this may be the case:
> > 
> > uthread/pthread_private.h:
> >     #define PTHREAD_WORKQ_REMOVE(thrd) do {                                 \
> >             TAILQ_REMOVE(&_workq,thrd,qe);                                  \
> >             (thrd)->flags &= ~PTHREAD_FLAGS_IN_WORKQ;                       \
> >     } while (0)
> > 
> > uthread/uthread_kern.c (in multiple locations):
> >         TAILQ_FOREACH(pthread, &_workq, qe) {
> >             ....
> >                                 PTHREAD_WORKQ_REMOVE(pthread);
> >     }
> 
> This used to be safe as long as the element removed wasn't re-added to
> another queue using the same link.  There are other places in libc_r
> where we do re-use the same link (remove from one list and add to
> another), but roll our own loop in that case:
> 
>       for (p = TAILQ_FIRST(&q); p != NULL; p = p_next) {
>               p_next = TAILQ_NEXT(p, p_qe);
>               ...
>               TAILQ_REMOVE(&q, pthread, p_qe);
>               ...
>       }
> 
> -- 
> Dan Eischen
> 
> 


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