Why is a process hanging in a futex_wait?

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Issue

  • A process is hanging and we have found that it is in a futex_wait. What is happening?
  • What does it mean when a process endlessly waits on FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (all)

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