Re: process no exit at exit()

On 08/16/2002 at 11:44:15 AM ZE2, Harro Verkouter <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>
> I can back that up... we see _exactly_ the same happening on our SMP
> box.... the main thread does not exit. We also get a lot of zombies from
> e.g. make... (after installing ngpt as pthread-library)
>
> Harro

Are you also running on an Althon?  We can't seem to reproduce the problem
on any of our Intel machines so far but we don't have any Althon's around ;
-)

>
>
> Arend-jan Wytzes wrote:
> >
> > Bug report:
> >
> > Multithreaded programs don't exit on exit(). For example, test programs
> > test_str01 and test_str03 don't exit after calling exit().
> > Test program test_str02 does exit, it uses pthread_exit().
> > The 'hanging' process can be killed with a signal.
> > It only occurs on SMP, not on uni-processor, so I can't debug it.
> >
> > aj
> > ---------------------------
> > gcc: 2.95.3
> > NGPT: 2.0.1, default config
> > LX: 2.4.19 SMP (dual athlon)

Arend, what version of glibc are you running?


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