libjava test suite keeps getting stuck

Thu Apr 19 17:56:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zackw@Stanford.EDU> writes:

Zack> This is likely to be a long-standing bug in the Linux thread
Zack> library. exit(3) from the main thread does not reliably
Zack> terminate all other threads. libjava may be assuming that it
Zack> does. The bug is more or less unfixable, and needs to be worked
Zack> around.
How?
I think we already have special hacks for Linux threads. Adding one
more won't hurt.
Tom