Re: [Valgrind-users] valgrind pthreads mutex bug

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

> So my question is... would it be possible for Valgrind to support this
> bugous behaviour by some switch or something?
>
> The problem is that cinelerra works just fine if it is run without
> valgrind...

If what you say is true, then it only works by luck and is certainly
not compliant the the POSIX pthread standard.  It sounds like you
need to use the "condition variable" facility of POSIX pthreads to 
achieve the "data ready" signalling you want, or perhaps the
POSIX semaphore functions (sem_*).

J