Bug? related to fork and pthreads

[Dave Hylands]

Hi,

I've stumbled on what appears to be a problem with pthreads.
I'm using what I believe is a version of 0.9.29 with the
linuxthreads.old variant with libpthread as a shared library (it came
from Wind River - so I'm not 100% sure on the version).

If my program calls fork, then __pthread_reset_main_thread gets
called, and everything seems to behave correctly.

However, if my program calls daemon (which also calls fork) then
__pthread_reset_main_thread doesn't get called.

This causes pthread_create's which are called after daemon is called
to hang, since the wrong thread gets signalled.
pthread_create trys to signal the original initial thread which
existed before the daemon call was made.

I've done a kludge by having pthread_create do:

self->p_pid = getpid();

before sending the request which allows my program to work, but I'm
not sure what the correct fix should be.

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Dave Hylands
Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://www.DaveHylands.com/