** Description changed: [Impact] As reported here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snapcraft/2017-March/003497.html (and on internal lists), it is possible for a golang executable that calls syscall.Exec to print an ugly "pthread_create failed: Resource temporarily unavailable" message before it starts the new process. There is no functional effect, but snapd runs into this frequently so it interferes with a nice snappy experience. Luckily for us, the bug was fixed upstream in the 1.8 release (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18146) so I can just backport the fix to Xenial and Yakkety. + + It also turns out to be necessary to include two more upstream patches + that fix test suite failures with new tzdata packages. [Test case] Run this code: package main // import "C" import ( - "syscall" + "syscall" ) func main() { - syscall.Exec("/bin/true", []string{"/bin/true"}, nil) + syscall.Exec("/bin/true", []string{"/bin/true"}, nil) } a few thousand times and check for messages (it prints a message ~2% of the time or so without the fix). [Regression potential] The patch is simple, if a bit verbose (it has some per-architecture changes). It has not been the cause of any bug reports in 1.8 as far as I am aware. So I would characterise the regression potential as very low. + + The tzdata patches are similarly well exercised as they are backports, + and are necessary or the build will fail!
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