IO deadlock

[Ulrich Drepper]

Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber-eb.uni-paderborn.de> writes:

> The only other function, I have found in the moment is _IO_seekoff.
> It hangs in _IO_flockfile, too. Don't remember from where it was called.

It would help if you could give more details.

> I think double locking is always a bad idea and shouldn't happen.

This is never done intentionally.  But sometimes it cannot be avoided.

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