[phobos] [D-runtime] Possible critical deadlock issue for 2.049

[Steve Schveighoffer]

Will the autotester detect a deadlock?

I'm not sure this is a good idea...

-Steve



----- Original Message ----
> From: Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com>
> To: D's runtime library developers list <d-runtime at puremagic.com>
> Cc: Phobos <phobos at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Mon, September 20, 2010 4:06:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [phobos] [D-runtime] Possible critical deadlock issue for 2.049
> 
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Sean Kelly wrote:
> 
> You can check in a unit test that  triggers the bug and watch the auto 
> tester.
> 
> Not ideal, but  functional.
> 
> If it still needs testing when I get home tonight, I'll give  it a shot 
> (it'll be 6-8 hours from now though).
> 
> > Okay, I've made  a bunch of changes to how thread initialization and 
> > termination is  done.  Tested to work on OSX with the deadlock case, but 
> > I think  only Linux was deadlocking anyway.  I don't have my Linux or 
> >  Windows VMs handy, so if someone could verify that threads still work on 
> > Windows (via the sample in the ticket below) that would be  fantastic.  
> > I'm building a new Linux VM on this machine to test  there.
> > 
> > On Sep 20, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Steve Schveighoffer  wrote:
> > 
> > > Have people seen these?
> > > 
> > >  
>http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=117650
>
> >  > 
> > > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4890
> >  > 
> > > This might need an emergency release... seems like a really  bad one.
> > > 
> > > -Steve
> > > 
> > > 
> >  > 
> > > 
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