Bug#454183: libc6: deadlock in syslog() after fork

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Marc Donner a écrit :
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.5-7
> Severity: important
> 
> the syslog() funktion seems sometimes to end in a deadlock, if a 
> multithreaded process, where are threads logging to syslog, at the
> same time does a fork() and the child trys to log something to syslog.
> the child process hangs in the syslog call. the gdb backtrace is:

Could you please retry with an up to date version of libc6 (2.6.1 or
even 2.7)?



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