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From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: deadlock in signal handler with NPTL
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 04:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040623042256.GA6177@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040622195237.GK5191@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>

On Tue, Jun 22, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I got the following test program. I know, it is very ugly and there
> > are a lot of things somebody should not do, but this is something
> > what programs like sshd are doing.
> 
> Then they should be fixed.  Neither syslog, nor printf, nor fflush
> are supposed to be async-signal safe, nor they actually are in glibc.

Yes, but the problem is: Nearly every daemon on a Linux system is
calling syslog() in a signal handler and it seems to be very easy
to deadlock them on every Linux system running glibc/NPTL. While
there seems to be no other system with the same problem.

  Thorsten

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-23  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-22 21:51 Thorsten Kukuk
2004-06-22 22:07 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-06-23  4:26   ` Thorsten Kukuk [this message]
2004-06-23  4:41     ` Steve Munroe
2004-06-23  6:56       ` Thorsten Kukuk
2004-06-23  8:23         ` Jakub Jelinek

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