ProcessManager on Solaris

Wed Feb 16 08:44:00 GMT 2005

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
>> libjava uses the regular POSIX threads on Solaris. As Hans mentioned, we 
> should migrate the boehm-gc to use the standard pthreads code on Solaris 
> too.
>> The reason why the mask isn't applied to the GC's daemon thread is that 
> we initialize the GC before we attach the main thread, so the signal 
> mask isn't applied to the main thread yet. An alternate solution would 
> be to make sure block_sigchld() gets called from the main thread before 
> _Jv_InitGC().
>
Then this is a latent bug in the boehm-gc/pthread also.
int libjava/posix-threads.cc _Jv_InitThreads() we must call 
block_sigchld(). This would fix both the latent pthread bug as well as 
Eric's Solaris problem.
David Daney.