Re: Libthr stable enough for testing

From: Dan Nelson <dnelson_at_allantgroup.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 00:35:32 -0500
In the last episode (May 29), Mike Makonnen said:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003 21:57:35 -0500 Glenn Johnson <glennpj_at_charter.net> wrote:
> > It seems to be working fine on a UP machine but it locks up my SMP
> > machine just trying to load a gnome session.  It leaves an image on
> > the screen but the keyboard and mouse stop responding and I can not
> > ssh into the box.
> 
> Please try the attached patch and let me know how it works.
> 
> Index: lib/libthr/thread/thr_create.c

The real problem is in the kernel, though.  A userland non-root process
should not be able to hard lock the system.  One of the threads people
will probably have to get an SMP machine to be able to debug it.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson_at_allantgroup.com
Received on Wed May 28 2003 - 20:35:37 UTC

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