From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
Cc: 36609@debbugs.gnu.org, politza@hochschule-trier.de
Subject: bug#36609: 27.0.50; Possible race-condition in threading implementation
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 14:57:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kow5f7q.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOqdjBc+=sVLVThT_mryYSz+EGg_cD1+Ewz5-Ln4AtmTYDM_yg@mail.gmail.com> (Pip Cet's message of "Sat, 13 Jul 2019 18:17:41 +0000")
Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com> writes:
> Patch attached.
>
> It's possible this'll livelock certain glib libraries that want to
> modify the glib main context while another thread is running. I don't
> see a good way to fix that, but a bad way would be to apply some
> heuristic (such as a 10 ms delay between calling select() and assuming
> it actually was called).
Skimming this thread, it seems that Eli was in agreement with applying
it, and Andreas has tried it extensively and it fixes the problem, so
I've applied it to Emacs 28 now.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-21 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-11 20:51 bug#36609: 27.0.50; Possible race-condition in threading implementation Andreas Politz
2019-07-12 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 9:02 ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 12:57 ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 13:51 ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 18:06 ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 19:24 ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-13 14:37 ` Pip Cet
2019-07-13 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-13 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-13 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-13 15:57 ` Pip Cet
2019-07-13 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-13 18:17 ` Pip Cet
2020-08-21 12:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-07-13 15:04 ` Andreas Politz
2019-07-12 12:44 ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 13:40 ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 14:34 ` Pip Cet
2019-07-12 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 19:30 ` Pip Cet
2019-07-13 6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-06 15:50 ` dick.r.chiang
[not found] ` <87fsxv8182.fsf@dick>
2021-06-06 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-06 19:10 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-06 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-09 21:40 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-10 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 11:52 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-10 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 14:55 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-10 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 21:36 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-11 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-19 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-19 19:14 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-19 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-19 21:12 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-20 11:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-20 14:01 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-06-20 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-10 15:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-06-10 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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