Bug#628493: perl: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386: t/op/threads failed
clone 628493 -1 -2
reassign -1 perl
reassign -2 perl
found -1 5.14.2-11
found -2 5.14.2-11
severity -1 important
severity -2 wishlist
retitle -1 Re-enable kFreeBSD threads test
retitle -2 Perl_atfork_reinit change
tags -2 +patch
thanks
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 07:03:57AM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >I just bisected on past eglibc versions and this is reproducible for me
> >(segfault 5% of the time) on kfreebsd-i386, up until this version, with
> >which I can't reproduce the problem any more (10,000+ test runs) :
> >
> >> eglibc (2.13-22) unstable; urgency=low
> >> -- Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:49:03 +0100
> >
> >The changelog for that version was quite long, but probably these
> >changes are what fixed this:
> >
> >> [ Petr Salinger ]
> >> * kfreebsd/local-sysdeps.diff: update to revision 3763 (from glibc-bsd).
> >> * add kfreebsd/local-use-thr-primitives.diff to use kernel thr*
> >> primitives inside linuxthreads. Closes: #639658.
> >
> >Therefore I'm marking this as fixed in that eglibc upload and I'll try
> >to let upstream know. Thanks!
>
>
> IMO, my suggested change (Perl_atfork_reinit) in "Message #54" [1]
> still should be aplied by perl upstream. While it might not be
> problem for this testcase, the unlocking in forked child is fragile.
>
> Petr
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org//cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628493#54
Thanks both. Cloning bugs as appropriate.
Dominic.
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