My understanding of python2.1 and cthreads

[James Morrison]

Hello,
        I've been trying to get python2.1 to run on GNU/Hurd with
cthreads
enabled.  python1.5 'worked' with cthreads on GNU/Hurd.  However,
python2.1
tries to use threads on startup if they are available.  One of the
very first
things python2.1 does is try to allocate a lock.  When allocating 
this lock
it checks if threads are initialized or not.  They are not so
cthread_init()
is run then mutex_alloc() is run.  calling mutex_alloc() is a macro
for
calloc(1,sizeof(struct mutex_t)).  Somewhere in calling calloc the
program
seg faults.  I seeing what happens when I do not run cthread_init();


        I have made a simple program that does what I think python2.1
is
doing but it has no problems.

The back trace has not changed from my posting yesterday.

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James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

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