Fwd: problems with linuxthreads under your latest glibc 15C rpms

[Hendricks, Kevin]

Thanks Franz!

Kevin


>Hi,
>
>this is a heads-up notice for distribution maintainers using the
>glibc-2-1-branch. It seems the branch contains a threads bug introduced with:
>
>2000-03-16  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper at redhat.com>
>
>         * mutex.c (__pthread_mutex_lock): Always initialize __m_owner.
>         (__pthread_mutex_trylock): Likewise.
>         (__pthread_mutex_unlock): Always clear __m_owner.
>
>Check the appended message for details. I've added the patch to my source
>tree, maybe someone finds time to check it in into the branch (yes, I know
>that the branch is more or less dead :-) ).
>
>Thanks,
>Franz.
>

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