From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2014-02-03T22:22:39+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:60434] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #9198] Segfault in TestException#test_machine_stackoverflow

Interesting.  Can you poke the Red Hat glibc/kernel folks to see if the
problem is specific to RH/Fedora systems?

Regardless, the current method of getting the address of the main thread
stack seems error prone and fragile on Linux.  Perhaps we should avoid
pthread_getattr_np in the main thread.