From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Wed Feb 03 1999 - 14:12:09 EST
On Feb 3, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> On Feb 3, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> > Isn't making the calls to libltdl thread-safe on our TODO list ever
>> > since it was introduced?
>> They are thread safe, because libnative is dlopened before the
>> threading system is started, and, after that, only System.loadLibrary
>> will load libraries, but it is already synchronized.
> If that's so, then how is it possible for VTALRM to screw up things?
There are two thread initializations in initialiseKaffe:
initNativeThreads and initThreads, and initNative runs in between
them. I'm not sure when VTALRM is set up...
-- Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org} oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org} Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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