Re: pthreads - stalker (Communigate) say's it's still an issue - what is the full story ?

[Brad <brad_(_at_)_comstyle_(_dot_)_com>]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:33:05AM -0500, Adam wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:01:48AM -0500, Brad wrote:
> > The pthreads library currently being used is far from perfect. A lot of
> > improvements have been made over the last 2-3 releases to try to fix
> > the majority of the issues but in the current state not much more can
> > be done. There is an on-going side project to write a replacement pthreads
> > lib which will be kernel backed and would fix most of the current issues
> > as well as allowing for the lib to take advantage of MP systems.
> 
> None of these issues cause multithreaded apps to crash do they?  I
> realize its not as fast as it could be, and that its userland only, but
> it seems stable at least.  Very busy mysql and milter installations work
> fine.
> 
> Adam

Its hard to say but yes these issues could potentially cause an application
to crash.