IO deadlock

[Thorsten Kukuk]

Hello,

I have a big problem with the current glibc snapshot, there is a
deadlock in the IO code. I have append an older version of the
getpass() function, which makes the problem reproduceable:
gcc -o libc-getpass libc-getpass.c works fine, but linking it with
gcc -o libc-getpass libc-getpass.c -lpthread causes a deadlock in
fflush (out). Very bad. It works fine on other platforms and with older
glibc versions. Any ideas ? I'm using egcs 1.0.3a, binutils 2.9.0.1.7.

I need a fix for it, because this bug causes nscd and NIS+ to stop working.

  Thorsten

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