From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org>
Subject: Re: futex wait failure
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:49:43 -0500
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Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca,
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To: John David Anglin <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:44 PM, John David Anglin
<dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> wrote:
>> Actually I did tested this with the minifail test program, and chang=
ed
>> thread_run() to call _exit(0) at the end instead of "return 0":
>> void* thread_run(void* arg) {
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 ...
>> /* =A0 =A0return (void *)&status; =A0*/
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0_exit(0);
>> }
>> With strace I then suddenly got exit_group() which seems more correc=
t:
>> [pid =A01910] write(1, "Thread OK.\n", 11) =3D 11
>> [pid =A01910] exit_group(0) =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =3D ?
>
> The child of the fork should exit using _exit(0). =A0Otherwise, it me=
sses
> with the file descriptors of the parent.

Thanks for verifying this. I'm looking into this.

Cheers,
Carlos.
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