On Nov 15, 2014, at 21:26, Garrett Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 15, 2014, at 21:24, Alfred Perlstein <alf...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/15/14, 9:22 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> On Nov 15, 2014, at 21:19, Alfred Perlstein <alf...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> This looks easy enough to fix under _thr_find_thread() in libthread.
>>>> 
>>>> Any interest in fixing it?
>>> Yes, if it’s POSIXly correct and doesn’t break everything else.
>>> 
>>>> Might be worth hacking _thr_find_thread() to take an ERRNO to return based 
>>>> on NULL until we chase down all the paths into it just in case EINVAL is a 
>>>> valid ptr.
>>> K. Thanks for the hint!
>>> 
>>>> Also, just wondering what happens on other platforms, does it elicit a 
>>>> crash?  Ie. is NULL a safe value to pass in on other platforms?
>>> I wish I knew what happened on !x86 platforms… I honestly don’t have access 
>>> to ARM/MIPS/PowerPC, so I can’t say :/.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Oh, I meant Linux and Solaris, or even other BSD.
> 
> Ah, good question. pho@ ran some of the tests in contrib/netbsd-tests on 
> Linux/OSX before to do a side-by-side comparison, but I haven’t setup the 
> necessary environment to do that testing [yet].

FWIW, there’s some weirdness with one of the testcases that was never fully 
integrated in at Isilon where it blocks on a random mutex in libthr… trying to 
figure out what’s causing it to do that, but this might be related...

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