[PATCHES][BUG 13170] Fix crash in pthreadpool thread after failure from pthread_create

[Christof Schmitt]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 09:38:02PM +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > If we decide to go with cmocka anyway, the best approach would be to put
> > the new test in a new file and implement it completely with cmocka.
> > Existing tests could then be converted later.
> 
> I thought that we would go that way for master. Just write that one test using 
> cmocka. We could do the backport without the test for Samba 4.6, Samba 4.7 
> includes cmocka in third_party.

Ok, let me work on this approach then.

> If we want to use cmocka for every test we need to provide a way for mutexes 
> without linking cmocka to a threading library. cmocka only requires libc and 
> it should stay that way. However we could create it in such a way that you can 
> set functions for locking which called at the right positions in cmocka.

I am not sure what you mean here. pthreadpool uses mutexes and threads
internally and links against pthreads. Is that a problem for cmocka?

Christof