named pipes problem?

[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 00:19, Gregory M. Turner wrote:
> cool trick.  an ironic side-note (I have not tried this on my without-nptl 
> system yet, so the following is not relevant to my problem): on my nptl 
> system (the one that works now), I get:
> 
> # /lib/libc-2.3.2.so
> Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1238: dl_main: Assertion 
> `_rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_prev->l_next == _rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_next' 
> failed!
> 
> oy!  I wonder, does this indicate a real problem that I should be worried 
> about? ...

Probably. The map list is a pretty important structure, if it has holes
in it (as that assert would imply) something is going to blow up
somewhere...