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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 15:15:51 +0000
From: John Starks <John.Starks@...rosoft.com>
To: "musl@...ts.openwall.com" <musl@...ts.openwall.com>, "dirk@...iot.com"
	<dirk@...iot.com>
Subject: RE: Deadlock when calling fflush/fclose in multiple threads

> 
> I think we just have to move the __ofl_lock to the top of the
> function, before FLOCK, and the __ofl_unlock to after the
> fflush/close. Unfortunately this makes fclose much more serializing
> than it was before, but I don't see any way to avoid it.
> 

Perhaps you could keep a global count of FILEs that are still being flushed after having been removed from the list. fflush could perform a futex wait on this becoming 0.

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