Re: (more) concurrency issues in libldap_r?

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

Pierangelo Masarati writes:
> (...) To try and work it out, I've replaced most of the calls to
> 
>         ldap_pvt_thread_mutex_lock( &some_mutex );
> 
> with
> 
>         while ( ldap_pvt_thread_mutex_trylock( &some_mutex ) )
>                 ldap_pvt_thread_yield();
> 
> This seems to cure the problem (up to now)

If ldap_pvt_thread_mutex_lock doesn't yield when it has to wait, that
sounds like a bug in the threads implementation to me.  So I suggest to
- test it on some other operating system,
- bugreport it when it hopefully turns out to be OS-dependent, and
- insert that code in ldap_pvt_thread_mutex_lock itself, if possible
  #ifdeffed on a configure test which detects the problem.

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Hallvard
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