dave madden wrote:
>
> =>From: ron flory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> =>...
> => Speaking of threads, we have several Linux (RH6.0 based) machines that
> =>segfault when using pthreads. It happens with several different
> =>programs, and always seems to happen in the libc 'free()' function. SMP
> =>seems to make it happen more often (as one would expect), yet the same
> =>programs run fine under SUN Solaris Unix....
>
> Did you compile with -D_REENTRANT (or -D_THREAD_SAFE)? I'm not having
> any trouble with pthreads on RH5.2, kernel 2.3.3, KCC-3.3f.
hi-
yup, have been using -D_REENTRANT. pthreads seems to have a problem
when more than one thread is trying to do a free() [ or C++ delete() ]
call at the same time. I've got one of our guys trying to put together
a small test program that always breaks-
ron
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