Great thanks, commited to master. -g
On 2010-10-01, at 12:31 PM, Koushik Dutta wrote: > I submit this patch under the terms of the MIT/X11 license > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Geoff Norton <[email protected]> wrote: > Koush, > > Nice, can you please confirm on the list that you're willing to contribute > this patch under the terms of the MIT/X11 license? > > Thanks > > -g > > On 2010-09-30, at 12:26 AM, Koushik Dutta wrote: > >> Here is the fix for the following bug: >> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=633454 >> >> The underlying problem is there is a bug in Android's libc, where after a >> process forks, the kernel id of the forked thread is not changed to reflect >> the new child thread. The pthread kernel id still points to the kernel id of >> the parent process: zygote. >> >> This bug breaks all multithread monodroid apps (as well as my mono on >> Android port), as Garbage Collection fails and the process hangs. >> >> The fix/workaround for the bug in Android is as follows: >> The GC_Thread structure on Android has a new "kernel_id" member. When >> GC_new_thread is called, the kernel id is also retrieved and stored with >> gettid. When the world needs to be stopped/started, a new function >> android_thread_kill is called, which is a reimplementation of Android's >> pthread_kill. Instead, which takes the correct kernel id, rather than the >> potentially hosed pthread. >> >> I have attached a patch file, as well as committed to my fork of mono on >> Github: >> http://github.com/koush/mono/commit/414aff5598a2dea618741bea714fa8dd1baf0d52 >> >> >> <pthread_android.patch>_______________________________________________ >> Mono-list maillist - [email protected] >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > >
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