Re: Re: segfault in builtins-thread.c

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:18:49AM -0700, Mark Hahn wrote:
> 
> "Kenny MacDermid" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Hey'a Mark,
> >
> > I was wondering what version of the APR are you compiling
> > against? I've tried 0.9.4 and 0.9.5 (from svn), against your
> > 0.0.6 and current and I still seem to get segfaults pretty
> > much every other time I run it against Bind.pr, Threads.pr and
> > others.
> 
> Ben Collins is our linux guy.  I asked him to look at this.

Well, it's not a linux problem, just that it showed up with linux (and
possible with this particular machine/compiler).

new_thread_object is a global being used by threads between calls
improperly. Protect that variable somehow from the race condition
between apr_thread_create() and register_thread().

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