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