Why does deadlock happen when using condition variables with pthread libraries?

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Issue

  • My custom application hangs on condition variables. After forcing a core (kill -ABRT), the stack trace shows that threads are wait()ing on condition variables but no thread is holding the associated mutex.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • glibc-2.12-1.7.el6

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