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Re: kernel lock

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Provenzano)
Wed Aug 2 02:30:08 1995

To: Steven Hugg <hugg@xi.cs.fsu.edu>
Cc: pthreads@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jul 1995 13:09:16 EDT."
             <199507181709.NAA12827@xi.cs.fsu.edu> 
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 02:09:11 EDT
From: Christopher Provenzano  <proven@MIT.EDU>


> I see that pthread_sig_process() assumes that the kernel is locked. During
> a call to pthread_kill(), this function is called with pthread_kernel_lock
> equal to 0, and fails in the PTHREAD_SIG_SIGNAL case. Is this a bug? I'm
> using 1.60b2.
> 
> --
> Steven E. Hugg
> hugg@cs.fsu.edu
> 

Sorry to take so long to get back to you. It is a bug and will require
a little hacking to fix. This bug is also in 1.60b3.

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