* Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org> [1110 09:10]:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:47:39AM +0000, Dick Davies wrote:

> > PTHREAD_DIAGASSERT=A
> > 
> > in /etc/rc.d/slapd
> > fixes the crash.
> 
> It is my understanding that PTHREAD_DIAGASSERT catches buggy code that
> does incorrect things with pthreads (destroying a mutex that has
> already been destroyed, for example). Setting it to "A" just causes it
> to ignore the errors and continue (i.e., destroying a mutex that has
> already been destroyed just does nothing, instead of aborting);
> however, the code that uses pthreads is still buggy. I seem to recall
> the rationale for having it abort by default is that it's better to
> detect buggy code, so that it can be fixed, rather than just
> blissfully ignoring the bugs.

That's why I only set it in the rc script :) I'll feed this back to the
openldap people now I'm back in service.



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