Re: [Valgrind-users] Nontrival bug in OpenOffice caught by Valgrind?

[Nicholas N. <nj...@ca...>]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Dan Kegel wrote:

> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16270
> Valgrind caught OpenOffice unlocking a mutex
> with a different thread than created it... tsk.
>
> Any chance this is a false positive?  It'd be pretty cool
> if Valgrind was right here; this would explain some
> strange problems I've seen reported in OpenOffice.

Well, there's always a chance it's a bug in Valgrind... but tracking which
thread locks/unlocks a mutex isn't very hard, ie. it's not, AFAIK, a dark
corner of Valgrind that is difficult to get right.

N