--- Coro/README.linux-glibc 2003/03/22 18:50:31 1.2 +++ Coro/README.linux-glibc 2004/04/01 02:29:05 1.5 @@ -1,16 +1,24 @@ If Coro causes segfaults a lot on calls to libc functions, the cause is -probably a glibc compiled for i386 and kernel 2.2. +probably a glibc compiled for i386 and kernel 2.2 (for example, debian +only supplies 2.2 and 2.6-optimized libraries, not 2.4). Glibc contains a bug that causes any program linked against pthreads AND using coroutines (of any kind, not only Coro, but including most userspace thread libraries like gnu-pth) or alternate stacks to segfault on calls to pthread functions. And glibc happens to do a lot of these calls. +(Even if you perl is not compiled against pthreads, Time::HiRes links +against -lrt, which drags in pthreads. The same is true for other modules, +so watch out). + The bug is rather difficult to fix. This is not a problem, however, since glibcs compiled for linux-2.4 use a much more efficient method to locate their data, which happens to work with coroutines. -So the easy fix is to install a libc which was compiled for linux-2.4, -using the "--enable-kernel=2.4 i586-pc-linux-gnu" configure options. +So the easy fix is to install a libc which was compiled for linux-2.4 (or +2.6) using the "--enable-kernel=2.4 i586-pc-linux-gnu" configure options. WARNING: This libc will no longer run on linux-2.2 or lower! + +UPDATE: Time::HiRes in current perl snapshots does no longer link against +-lrt. That still means you need to patch it until 5.9.x gets out.