Bug 86140 - "possible process hang on thread death"
Summary: "possible process hang on thread death"
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-14 19:53 UTC by Dave Johnson
Modified: 2016-11-24 15:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-06-24 17:00:44 UTC
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Description Dave Johnson 2003-03-14 19:53:42 UTC 
Description of problem:
Threads in glibc have problems exiting appropriately.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Regularly

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run multithreaded app
2. if a thread receives a signal, it hangs
    
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

It looks like this has been out there for awhile, looked at the SRPMS and it 
doesn't look like fix is included (we see same stack trace as inktomi):

http://bugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?debug=&database=glibc&cmd=view+audit-
trail&pr=3501
Comment 1 Ulrich Drepper 2003-04-22 06:10:33 UTC 
LinuxThreads has problems with signals, this is nothing new.  Try RHL9 with NPTL
which should handle all these things nicely.
Comment 2 Brian Brock 2003-06-24 17:00:44 UTC 
closing.
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