Bug#52041: apt: Apt fails on SMP machines

[Hirling Endre <endre@dawn.elte.hu>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.10slink11
Severity: normal

Apt >=0.3.13 fails with "Bad file descriptor" on SMP machines. It
seems like a race condition somewhere because the problem
disappears if I try to trace it with strace or use it on a loaded
system. 0.3.10slink11 works OK. I don't have versions between the
two to test with.

I've tried this on a dual pIII-450 and a dual pII-333 system with
the same results.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux dawn 2.2.14pre8 #2 SMP Thu Nov 25 11:54:30 CET 1999 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.2-10       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libstdc++2.9    2.91.61-1      The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)