Bug#677046: Bug#628493: perl: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386: t/op/threads failed

Petr Salinger Petr.Salinger at seznam.cz
Mon Sep 9 08:14:53 UTC 2013


>> IMO, my suggested change (Perl_atfork_reinit) in "Message #54" [1]
>> still should be aplied by perl upstream. While it might not be
>> problem for this testcase, the unlocking in forked child is fragile.
>
> Hi,
>
> I finally (!) got round to submitting this upstream, at [1], and the
> comment so far is that the patch isn't appropriate. If you have any
> further thoughts, could you comment on the upstream RT ticket?

If I remember correctly, the perl code expects something which is not 
guaranteed by POSIX. But our new implementation provides this, therefore 
we (kfreebsd) are not affected by this any longer.

Petr




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