Subject: Re: Mozilla on -current (pthread related)
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Martin J. Laubach <mjl@usenet-2002-07.emsi.priv.at>
List: current-users
Date: 01/27/2003 12:26:04
| > #0 0x41813440 in _rtld_bind_start () from /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so
| > Cannot access memory at address 0xfffffff0
|
| Hrmf. ld.elf_so is not currently thread-safe, although it currently
| only manifests itself if the application uses dlopen(), etc.
|
| We need an SA-aware read/write lock implementation for ld.elf_so.
Hm, since about everything and their brother seem to be threads-
happy and use locale support nowadys, those applications the problem
manifests itself are... about everything?
Would a big-lock style semaphore in dlopen() be enough to get
things working again?
mjl