[Q] bug-iconv3 and locking functions.

[Ulrich Drepper]

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Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> The iconv_open function, through a chain of other function calls relies
> on __libc_lock_* to do all locking. What is the purpose of the above
> testcase?

Just what it says, testing that dynamically loading libpthread works.


> From what I can see, without threading the __libc_lock_*
> functions do nothing,

Wrong.  With NPTL they always do something.


>  Lastly iconv_open is called again to
> test if it hangs. On hppa it does. Is this indicating that our mutex
> functions are _not_ behaving as expected?

I don't know, and I have no interest to look deep enough into this.  If
the test fails, your code is wrong.  It works everywhere else.

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