[issue4970] test_os causes delayed failure on x86 gentoo buildbot: Unknown signal 32

[Charles-Francois Natali]

Charles-Francois Natali <neologix at free.fr> added the comment:

Signal 32 is the first real-time signal, and is indeed used by linuxthreads, so it's very likely a linuxthreads bug, since this signal shouldn't leak to application.
Since linuxthreads is no longer maintained, I'm afraid we can't do much about this, except check for the threading library used and say "linuxthreads is obsolete and has known issues - please upgrade your system for reliable threading support".

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nosy: +neologix

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