Re: [Valgrind-developers] Idea for sidestepping the NPTL/PosixThreads/LD_PRELOAD mess

[Adam G. <ar...@cy...>]

At 17:28 06/04/03 +0000, Julian Seward wrote:

>I've spent the afternoon messing with R H 9.  Graydon and Jeff have
>done a great job telling me useful stuff for getting V to work on 
>RH9, and thanks to them for that.
>
>So it sort-of works.  Unfortunately OpenOffice hangs, due to an accept()
>call which isn't correctly routed to V's only-this-thread-blocks 
>implementation thereof, and so the whole app hangs.  Sigh.  I think it
>might be due to ld.so in 9 ignoring -z initfirst.
>
>It's all a swamp, and V is getting more and more cluttered with stuff
>to work around this kind of problem.  JeremyF's vg_intercept.c thing
>is the latest addition.

just as a matter of interest (or maybe shared problems!) WINE has been having
trouble with NPTL as well, since they also want to provide their own pthread
implementation... might be worth having a look at some of the hoops the new
NPTL patches in WINE go through.


Seeya,
 Adam
--
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write,
it should be hard to read, and even harder to modify.
These are all my own opinions.