I believe I've identified a deadlock that is periodically reproducible
with Eclipse running on FC5. I'll attach the stack trace to this bug
report. See threads 4 and 13.
1. Thread 4 aquires the GC lock and starts a GC
2. Thread 13 dlopens a .so, acquiring a glibc maintained lock
3. Thread 13 tries to acquire the GC lock while registering classes
4. Thread 4 tries to acquire the glibc lock in dl_iterate_phdr
...and we're deadlocked.
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Summary: Deadlock in garbage collector
Product: gcc
Version: 4.1.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: libgcj
AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
ReportedBy: green at redhat dot com
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27170
