After a few hours of digging through both the glib-2 as well as the beep-media-player sources i finally managed to figure out why beep-media-player apprently crashes on startup when using libpthread, but not when using libc_r.
i filed a bugreport against this problem on bugzilla.gnome.org ... in the hope to get some feedback from glib-developers ... http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152009 The problem is with the actual return value of pthread_mutex_trylock returning EDEADLK instead of EBUSY. from what i have been able to glance from this previous discussion regarding this particular subject (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-threads/2004-January/001539.html) pthread_mutex_trylock should behave identical to pthread_mutex_lock except return immediately in case of a blocking mutex, which would suggest EDEADLK as a possible return value. This Seems to be the current implementation of both libpthread as well as libthr ... with libc_r being the sole exception. The pthread_mutex_trylock manpage however does not reflect this actual implementation and only mentions EBUSY and EINVAL. I was wondering assuming the implementation is actually correct if this could be rectified in the pthread_mutex_trylock manpage ... and if my assumption is wrong if the implementation could be changed to reflect the manpage. In the former case i will have to bug the glib-devs to change the implementation of their pthread_mutex_trylock wrapper ... to also check for EDEADLK. -- With kind regards, Pascal Hofstee _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
