1.1.6 crashes on OpenBSD 2.8

> From: Rafal Maszkowski <rzm@icm.edu.pl>

>dccm from DCC 1.1.6 crashes (and sometimes even worse - stalls) on OpenBSD 2.8:

> ...
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x400a5c2f in _thread_machdep_switch ()
> #1  0x400f2308 in _sigq_check_reqd ()
> #2  0x400a4e36 in _thread_kern_sched_state ()
> #3  0x400bbd06 in select ()
> #4  0xe5c0 in dcc_clnt_op (emsg=0x54328 "", ctxt=0x2bac10, anum=-1, msg=0x2ccc14, msg_len=188, op=DCC_OP_REPORT, resp=0x2ccb6c,
>     resp_max_len=168, resp_su=0x0) at clnt_send.c:1877
> ...

A naive reading of that stack trace is that there is something
wrong in the OpenBSD POSIX threads library, because that's where
_thread_machdep_switch(), _sigq_check_reqd(), and _thread_kern_sched_state(),
live.  Line 1877 of clnt_send.c in the first DCC code is unlocking
function.

However, that may be too naive a reading.  Perhaps the crash is in
some other thread and gdb is being obscure.  It might be interesting
to use the gdb command "info thr" to find all of the threads, and
then "thr X" followed by "bt" for X each of the thread numbers.


Vernon Schryver    vjs@rhyolite.com