On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:08:50AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Marko, Shaun wrote: > > >I'm working on FreeBSD 6.2 and I'm wondering if anybody can help with an > >issue I've found using fork and threads. The attached program > >demonstrates the problem. In short, if a process creates a thread, joins > >the thread, then forks a child process which creates a thread, the > >child's attempt to create a thread will cause the program to dump core > >with the following error message: > >Fatal error 'mutex is on list' at line 540 in file > >/usr/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_mutex.c (errno = 0). > > You are not allowed by POSIX to call any non-async-signal-safe > function from a child of a threaded program. There's words > or rationale to the effect that the only purpose for forking > from a threaded program should be to call one of the exec* > functions. Trying to create a thread from a child (like > you are trying to do) is definitely not supported.
I've often done it, but since this is subject right now it is a good point to ask if I just had luck so far. Is it allowed to use popen(3) from a threaded programm? -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
