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Re: openoffice 1.0.1 vs glibc cvs
- From: Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo dot msbb dot uc dot edu>
- To: Robert Love <rml at tech9 dot net>
- Cc: jakub at redhat dot com, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 15:31:53 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: openoffice 1.0.1 vs glibc cvs
- References: <200211040434.XAA33448@bromo.msbb.uc.edu>
Robert,
Do you happen to have Blackdown JDK installed on your machine.
I just checked with Kevin Hendricks about this and he believes
we may be seeing a jdk failure due to __libc_wait being private
to glibc now in 2.3.x. This symbol is needed by JDK 1.3.1 to
properly catch all of the sigchild signals for its fork/exec code.
Kevin says if they call the regular wait in the signal handler, it
is wrappered by the pthread library and becomes a pthread
cancellation point which causes us to drop sigchild on occaission.
This symbol was being used to work around non-posix pthread signal
handling in Linux.
Jack