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working on a program in C. trying to use pthread_barrier_init(). the important parts to this question that I have so far is:

 

webStress.h

pthread_barrier_t *startLine;

main.c

#include "webStress.h"
#include <pthread.h>
...
if((pthread_barrier_init(startLine, NULL, 1)) == 0){
  printf("error\n");
  exit(0);
}

thread.c

#include "webStress.h"
#include <pthread.h>
...
pthread_barrier_wait(startLine);

The point of the barrier is I will have multiple threads running and I want them to all wait to begin at once. The code I have compiles fine, no errors, no warnings and I compile with the -lpthread flag. But when I run it, it segfaults in the init portion. The following is what gdb tells me.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

[switching to Thread -1208600384 (LWP 961)]

0x002dab32 in pthread_barrier_init () from /lib/i686/nosegneg/libpthread.so.0

Any ideas? I can't think of anything. I know barrier isn't implemented on certain distros but I can't understand why it would compile if it wasn't on there. I've never used barriers before and don't know if i'm implementing wrong or what.

 

at the point when I get the seg fault, I haven't created any other threads, or called pthread_barrier_wait(). The init gets called directly after checking the command line args.

 

This is on a linux system by the way. don't know what distro, it's a school comp and my only way to get into it is ssh (unless someone can tell me how to check using ssh).

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I haven't used it either, but at a guess I would say it's because the pointer you're passing for parameter #1 (startLine) is a pointer with no allocated memory. It's pointing to a random location, and I expect the pthread functions are then writing to the memory at this random location.

 

Try these instead:

 

pthread_barrier_t startLine;

pthread_barrier_init(&startlLine, NULL, 1);

pthread_barrier_wait(&startLine);

 

or

 

pthread_barrier_t *startLine = NULL;

startLine = (pthread_barrier_t *)malloc(1 * sizeof(pthread_barrier_t));

/* possible 'memset' here */

pthread_barrier_init(startLine, NULL, 1);

pthread_barrier_wait(startLine);

 

 

 

This is on a linux system by the way. don't know what distro, it's a school comp and my only way to get into it is ssh (unless someone can tell me how to check using ssh).

 

`uname -a`

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thanks markiemrboo,

 

uname -a

[teamB@teamB1 jkcj]$ uname -a

Linux teamB1 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5xenU #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 00:46:43 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

is that Fedora Core 5? It is being run virtually through xen i know that much.

 

anyways, the first worked. Didn't have to malloc anything.

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thanks markiemrboo,

 

No problem,

 

uname -a

 

is that Fedora Core 5? It is being run virtually through xen i know that much.

 

Looks like it might be. Not much of a Linux guy as you all know, but FC5 seems to suggest it is :)

 

anyways, the first worked. Didn't have to malloc anything.

 

Either should work, just done in slightly different ways :)

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