Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: source-changes
Date: 03/04/2003 22:04:31
>Log Message:
>Fix lib/20558:
>A dynamically linked program invokes the rtld cleanup routine via
>an atexit handler.  This rtld cleanup routine invokes _fini() for
>shared libraries, which in-turn invoke __cxa_finalize() with their
>DSO handle.  By luck, this happens to work okay for non-threaded
>programs, but for a threaded program, this leads to deadlock (sometimes
>manifested as an assertion failure, if the program didn't actually
>create any threads).
>
>Fixed by teaching __cxa_finalize() that it can be recursively invoked,
>adjusting the handler list manipulation accordingly.

mmm...*MUCH* better.  thanks muchly.  :)

-- 
|-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----|
codewarrior@daemon.org             * "ah!  i see you have the internet
twofsonet@graffiti.com (Andrew Brown)                that goes *ping*!"
werdna@squooshy.com       * "information is power -- share the wealth."