[M3devel] 5.8.6 LINUXLIBC6 breakage, kernel 2.6.23, glibc-2.6-4

[Tony Hosking]

Well, that is reassuring news.
If the problems are isolated to threading then they can be resolved easily.

On Apr 7, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Mika Nystrom wrote:

> 
> Remember that for mission-critical applications there's always user
> threading..  I find that the system (up to and including the CVS head
> and on both amd64 and i386 flavors of Linux as well as every other OS I
> have tried) is very very stable with user threading.  I'm eager to use
> pthreads again of course, for all sorts of reasons...
> 
>    Mika
> 
> Tony Hosking writes:
>> OK, sounds like the stability of the system is going downhill.  I'm not =
>> sure when I'll have time to look at this.  Maybe soon, maybe in the =
>> summer.  I am discouraged at all the reports we have been having about =
>> these sorts of problems.
>> 
>> On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Dragi=C5=A1a Duri=C4=87 wrote:
>> 
>>> I am getting this, when my program does a Thread.Fork.
>>> =20
>>> ***
>>> *** runtime error:
>>> ***    <*ASSERT*> failed.
>>> ***    file "../src/thread/PTHREAD/ThreadPThread.m3", line 586
>>> ***
>>> =20
>>> Any ideas? It worked... And stopped working... Some changes were made =
>> to openssl libraries and similar...
>>> =20
>>> TIA,
>>> dd