Comment by oldtimer1901

Old timers will recall that when Java first became popular in the mid 90s it brought to light all sorts of bugs in various operating systems' thread implementations - particularly in SunOS/Solaris. It is discouraging that such basic bugs still exist in GNU/Linux after 25 years. But it's not surprising - if anyone tells you that they understand all possible multi-threaded scenarios and race conditions in the implementation of these libraries - they are mistaken. It's all trial and error.