Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] timeval: Fix occasional backtrace() related deadlock.

2012-10-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:36:41PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote: > Occasionally, backtrace() will deadlock in the signal handler > because it does some non signal safe initialization. Specifically, > it opens a shared object. As a work around, this patch forces > backtrace() to run outside of a sig

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] timeval: Fix occasional backtrace() related deadlock.

2012-10-26 Thread Ethan Jackson
Occasionally, backtrace() will deadlock in the signal handler because it does some non signal safe initialization. Specifically, it opens a shared object. As a work around, this patch forces backtrace() to run outside of a signal handler, so that future calls will perform as expected. Signed-off