Re: Libthr stable enough for testing

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 05/30/03

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    Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:54:22 -0700 (PDT)
To: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>

    On Thu, 29 May 2003, Glenn Johnson wrote:

    > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:20:02AM -0400, Mike Makonnen wrote:
    >
    > > On Thu, 29 May 2003 00:35:32 -0500 Dan Nelson
    > > <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > > > The real problem is in the kernel, though. A userland non-root
    > > > process should not be able to hard lock the system. One of the
    > > > threads people will probably have to get an SMP machine to be able
    > > > to debug it.
    > >
    > >
    > > Upon first reading it I had assumed he meant gnome locked up. Can you
    > > confirm this Glenn? Is the machine itself locked solid (no ping, no
    > > ssh, not vtys, etc)? However, even if that is the case a bug in the
    > > kernel does not preclude a bug in libthr.
    >
    > The machine locks up solid. I can not do anything with it except hit
    > the reset button. I mentioned gnome because gnome will trigger the
    > lock up. I would imagine I would see the same thing with kde however.

    what about kernel debugger?

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