Bug#677046: Bug#628493: perl: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386: t/op/threads failed

[Dominic Hargreaves]

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 at 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.

Hi,

I finally (!) got round to submitting this upstream, at [1], and the
comment so far is that the patch isn't appropriate. If you have any
further thoughts, could you comment on the upstream RT ticket?

Cheers,
Dominic.

[1] <https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=119663>