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BUG IN PTHREADS 1_60BETA4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SethMeister G.)
Tue Nov 28 18:14:55 1995
From: "SethMeister G." <consp05@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu>
To: pthreads@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 17:48:43 -0500 (EST)
Hi there,
I just wanted to report 2 bugs in the pthreads library:
(1) In the scanf stdio library function, the mutex held while input
was performed was locked TWICE once before the stream manip, and once
after (it should be unlocked after, but it is NOT ).
(2) This one is NASTY - On Solaris 2.4, fork() does not work properly
100% of the time. eg: if one tries the following code:
for ( int i = 0; i < 100; i++ )
if ( fork() == 0 ) exit(0);
Sometimes, the process LOCKS UP totally.
Please send me an acknowledgement once you receive this. Thank you.
-S
