Hello Karel, El vie, 10-06-2005 a las 22:04 +0200, Karel Gardas escribió: > I do have amd64 box with relased sarge/amd64 installed. I'm using > gcc-3.4.x from debian package and I have multi-threading application which > strangely blocks on the call to pthread_rwlock_wrlock function. The > problem is, I'm 100% sure the lock is not hold by any reader, so wrlock > should succeed and continue w/o blocking. I'm also sure that this software > shouldn't be buggy in this domain, since it happily runs in 32bit chroot > of sarge compiled by the same compiler (just 32bit inside chroot) and also > it runs well on 64bit solaris10 compiled by sunstudio10 compiler into > 64bit executables. There is a TV app whose name I don't remember that I seem to recall was supposed to suffer the same problem on AMD64. There was a patch floating around that changed the rwlock calls to use a different locking mechanism, but I don't know if anybody was working on fixing the real problem. Greetings, -- Javier Kohen <jkohen@users.sourceforge.net> ICQ: blashyrkh #2361802 Jabber: jkohen@jabber.org
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