Justus Winter, le Thu 28 Aug 2014 12:04:24 +0200, a écrit :
> Quoting Samuel Thibault (2014-08-27 21:53:39)
> > Justus Winter, le Mon 05 May 2014 14:10:48 +0200, a écrit :
> > > I believe I have found two problems in the glibc.
> > > 
> > > 1. hurd_check_cancel takes 'lock', and then asserts that
> > >    'critical_section_lock' is not taken.  However, hurd_thread_cancel
> > >    first takes 'critical_section_lock' and then 'lock'.  This program
> > >    demonstrates this by spinning on both functions.
> > 
> > Indeed, it's another instance of the issue worked around in
> > t/thread-cancel. Roland, this is the reproducer you were asking for in 
> > 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2006-08/msg00019.html
> 
> This problem also blocks a patch I have that introduces more
> fine-graded locking into libpager (or libports...? or both...).

I have commited it to the debian libc, to appear in 2.19-11.

Samuel

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