Re: Hang in threads.test

[Andy Wingo]

Hi Neil,

I realize this was an old message, but it didn't seem that the thread
came to a conclusion:

On Fri 24 Sep 2010 00:40, Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

>> Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> My nightly build of master, on a relatively slow old machine, is
>>> hanging, on most nights, in `make check'.
>
> The hang seems to be caused by one thread (A) running (gc) at the same
> time as another thread (B) is doing GC_malloc_atomic.  The third thread
> in the backtrace is the signal delivery thread, and not involved.
>
> But in the "mutex with owner not retained (bug #27450)" test there is no
> thread B, so where does it come from?  It's left over from the "locking
> mutex on behalf of other thread" test, two tests previously.  Adding
> (join-thread t) to that earlier test means that the thread has to run
> and complete before we get to the (gc) test.

Is this fixed now for you?

Thanks,

Andy
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