[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#592751: Broken on hppa; programs abort with malloc assertion failure

[dann frazier]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:55:40AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi at dogguy.org> wrote:
> > On 19/08/2010 16:29, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> >> ?? 16:15 +0200 ???? 19.08.2010 (????), Mehdi Dogguy ????????????:
> >>> On 19/08/2010 15:45, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> >>>> Thanks, informing upstream.  Can you narrow it down a bit more?
> >>>
> >>> I narrowed it down to r28600:r28625.
> >>
> >
> > It's even r28610:r28615.
> 
> I'm the person to ask about hppa and NPTL (I wrote the code).
> 
> There *was* a vfork bug that was just fixed in glibc that could cause problems.

Are you referring to this one?

  * Add patches/hppa/cvs-vfork.diff to fix stack frame creating during 
    vfork in multithreaded environments.

fwiw, we are seeing this issue on the latest eglibc, which contains
this change.

> Does this code use vfork?
> 
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
> 
> 

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dann frazier