[Openais] [announce] corosync 1.2.4 released

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Colin <colin.hch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Steven Dake <sdake at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> This version has the following changes:
>> * Fixes defects in logsys which are crashing pacemaker installations.
>
> Hm, don't know whether I did something wrong, but I just compiled
> corosync 1.2.4, and then pacemaker 1.0.8, and the pair immediately
> crashes on startop because pacemaker invokes corosync's getpwnam() in
> exec/tsafe.c and the assert(0) gets triggered.

The latest versions from Hg have this fixed and it will be in 1.0.9
thats due "soon"

>
> It seems that tsafe.c wants to enforce, at runtime, that no library
> loaded into corosync calls a non-thread-safe function in the presence
> of threads; now the first thing I thought on seeing and (hopefully)
> understanding tsafe.c was to tell everybody writing extension for
> corosync to keep their code thread-safe, and throw it away.
>
> If, for whatever reasons, it is deemed necessary to keep this run-time
> work-around, one might go the whole way and implement thread-safe
> versions of the "offending" functions (on operating systems where it's
> necessary, for example on Darwin getpwnam() is already
> thread-safe)...?
>
> Regards, Colin
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