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

[Jeremy F. <je...@go...>]

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 02:03, 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.

Valgrind keeps that kind of mutex metadata in the mutex_t itself, so it
could get a false positive if what actually happened was that the mutex
was trashed.  So something bad happened.

	J