Pavel Fedin
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2012-12-06
- priority: 5 --> 9
mksquashfs uses mutexes and condition variables for inter-thread synchronization. These variables must be initialized before use. There are special initializers for it: PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER and PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER. Failure to do so may cause mutexes not to function (because there's no error check after lock/unlock operations). The bug has been discovered on Cygwin, where initializers are not NULL values.