Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test

[Kevin Ryde]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
>
> At the moment, though, I don't why it blocks.  I wonder if the parent
> left that mutex in an unexpected state when it forked.

Sound bizarre.  Maybe hacking scm_i_pthread_mutex_init to force the
use of the "error checking" mutex attribute and then hacking
scm_i_pthread_mutex_lock and scm_i_pthread_mutex_unlock to check the
return and errno would show something.  Dunno what though.