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| -rw-r--r-- | faq/libpthread_dlopen.mdwn (renamed from faq/libpthread_plugin.mdwn) | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/libpthread_dlopen.mdwn | 4 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/faq/libpthread_plugin.mdwn b/faq/libpthread_dlopen.mdwn index bcbe9571..5fb77767 100644 --- a/faq/libpthread_plugin.mdwn +++ b/faq/libpthread_dlopen.mdwn @@ -10,12 +10,16 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag faq/open_issues]] -[[!meta title="Getting Assertion `__pthread_threads' failed."]] +[[!meta title="Assertion `__pthread_threads' failed"]] -Some applications don't link against libpthread, but load plugins which do link against libpthread. This means unexpectedly switch from mono-thread to multi-thread. This is not supported yet, thus the following error: +Some applications don't themselves link against libpthread, but then load +plugins which do link against libpthread. This means internally switching from +single-threading to multi-threading, which is [[not yet +supported|open_issues/libpthread_dlopen]] by our [[/libpthread]], and results +in errors such as: ./pthread/../sysdeps/generic/pt-mutex-timedlock.c:70: __pthread_mutex_timedlock_internal: Assertion `__pthread_threads' failed. -This can be worked around by using +This can be worked around by explicitly pre-loading libpthread, for example: -export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/i386-gnu/libpthread.so.0.3 + $ LD_PRELOAD=/lib/i386-gnu/libpthread.so.0.3 [application] diff --git a/open_issues/libpthread_dlopen.mdwn b/open_issues/libpthread_dlopen.mdwn index 05a07ef2..47121972 100644 --- a/open_issues/libpthread_dlopen.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/libpthread_dlopen.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!toc]] +# [[FAQ entry|faq/libpthread_dlopen]] # IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2010-01-24 |