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Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test
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Marius Vollmer |
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Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test |
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Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:52:27 +0300 |
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Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:
> Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> I believe a while back I wondered if we might have trouble with
>> pthreads and fork unless we were very careful, and I'm beginning to
>> wonder again.
>
> Ahh, that sounds likely. If mutexes are unusable once forked then
> that'd hurt the gc trying to get all threads to rendezvous. Sounds
> bad for any scheme program that wants to fork, not just ice-9 popen.
> :-(
Yes. I think I have been here when investigating the popen blocking
problem, but then I compiled Guile without thread support and I could
still observe the blocking. (I stopped at that point, lazy me, but
debugging should have been simpler without threads...)
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- Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test, Rob Browning, 2006/09/03
- Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test, Kevin Ryde, 2006/09/07
- Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test, Rob Browning, 2006/09/07
- Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test, Kevin Ryde, 2006/09/08
- Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test,
Marius Vollmer <=
- Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test, Rob Browning, 2006/09/09
- Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test, Rob Browning, 2006/09/10
- Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test, Rob Browning, 2006/09/10
- Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test, Neil Jerram, 2006/09/11
- Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test, Rob Browning, 2006/09/11
- Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test, Neil Jerram, 2006/09/11