Re: [parisc-linux] Problem with threads..

[Christian Suder <csuder@cisco.com>]

On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 22:44:47 -0800
"Randolph Chung" <randolph@tausq.org> wrote:

> > the pan newsreader does not want to work on parisc platforms (neither
the ones from the debian archive nor a version compiled from scratch).
Digging a little bit I found the application hangs at pthread_mutex_lock
and similar calls. Tried with various kernel versions over the last couple
of months, never worked. Known issue ?> > 
> 
> fwiw, what i've seen elsewhere is that on palinux, you have to make sure
> the mutex is initialized before locking works. on other platforms
> sometimes you can get away with doing a lock without a mutex init.

Yes !!! There was one of 4 mutex not initialized, added that one and now
it works.

Many thanks,

	Christian