On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 05:12:57PM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > >No. Problems only occur if run-time loading/unloading via > >dlopen/dlclose is used, and then only if a lock or other thread > >library data structure might be held ``across'' the load or unload. > >So I think it is a rare, but troublesome, condition. > > It hit apache 1.3.29 + php4 too (PR 64932), which should be a pretty > common combination. Before my change slapd + Berkeley DB where > affected... Interesting. Perhaps a different but equally bad side-effect. > >When you changed the way OpenLDAP was linked, this condition occurred > >within libc due to dynamic loading of nss_ldap. So, lots of people's > >working systems suddenly starting crashing after upgrading. > > I'm sorry about that. Slapd was crashing, which is somewhat important > for the OpenLDAP port. This seemed like the proper fix to me, see the > recent thread `fix for libpthread' on -current. At least it fixed slapd :P Sorry, didn't mean to sound accusatory. I just meant to highlight the fact that the current system is fragile. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / nectar_at_celabo.org / jvidrine_at_verio.net / nectar_at_freebsd.orgReceived on Thu Apr 01 2004 - 05:32:25 UTC
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