Re: [LTP] does mtest05/mmstress.c exit?

[Scott A M. <sam...@co...>]

Robert Williamson wrote:
> 
> This is a problem we've seen on RedHat installations and other distros
> running Glibc 2.2.2.  However, we think the problem is related to the
> pthreads library.  The test passes under SuSe and Debian with Glibc
> 2.4.4......but fails with RedHat under 2.4.4....so it must be a library
> issue.  As you can see, this is a difficult problem to trackdown.  We also
> tried this with Next Generation Pthreads (NGPT) and it worked:
> 
>      http://oss.software.ibm.com/pthreads/
> 
> I guess the only solution is to try updating your Glibc level and if this
> fails, either try the latest kernel with pthreads or get NGPT.
> 
> - Robbie
> 
> Robert V. Williamson
> Linux Test Project
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> Phone: (512) 838-9295   T/L: 638-9295
> http://ltp.sourceforge.net
>


Thanks for the info

Pthreads is busted on 2.2.3 and 2.2.4 for MIPS (SGI site)