On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:12:35PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Here is a patch that fixes the deadlock for me. Fellow maintainers, is > > this ok to commit to the package, or would you prefer I clean it up > > first so that it's suitable for upstream submission?
> I think it's fine to commit to the package for right now. I'll go file an > upstream bug about the issue so that they're aware of it; my guess is that > they may have other ideas for how to fix it. Ok, I've scaled back the patch a bit before committing it because a deeper search leaves me uncertain that res_query and dn_expand are thread-safe even in current versions of glibc. Dropping the mutex for getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() is sufficient to fix this bug, in any case. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
