[parisc-linux] User space locks -- what's wrong

Carlos O'Donell carlos at systemhalted.org
Sun Jun 11 18:34:33 MDT 2006


On 6/11/06, John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> wrote:
> (gdb) p *spinlock
> $10 = {lock = {0, 0, 0, 0}} <== we would see some ones if initialized
> So, I believe the value for spinlock in the backtrace.  Thus, this is
> probably a libgfortran issue.

That is good news! It's an unfortuante side-effect of our lock code.
Which goes away in NPTL ... thankfully.

Cheers,
Carlos.



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