Re: balsa no-thread crash detected

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On 2001.08.23 20:10:03 +0100 Timothy Alan Chandler wrote:
> On 2001.08.23 16:41 M . Thielker wrote:
> 
> > Maybe related to the other pthread/fork related issues?
> 
> Probably a safe bet.
> 
> It could be as simple as balsa using some kind of kludge to work around old
> pthread bugs.  If those bugs have just recently been fixed in pthreads it
> might explain why some people aren't having any trouble.  Ofcourse that can
> go the other way as well.

There is no problem in pthreads.  I've written loads of code using pthreads and
never run into deadlock problems.  Of course you can't use many standard libc
calls - you need to use the _r variants when provided.  Also you need to think
a bit differently.  I'd bet the problem lies solely in Balsa.

brian Stafford