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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:52:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k64d8ano.fsf@zagadka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y7suvu0i.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Sat\, 09 Sep 2006 09\:05\:49 +1000")

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> 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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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-09 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-23  8:37 1.8 make check failing in popen.test Rob Browning
2006-07-23 22:36 ` Kevin Ryde
2006-07-23 23:12   ` Rob Browning
2006-07-24  7:25     ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-07-30  1:59       ` Rob Browning
2006-08-15  8:35 ` Rob Browning
2006-08-15 23:13   ` Kevin Ryde
2006-08-16  1:18     ` Rob Browning
2006-08-16 23:26       ` Kevin Ryde
2006-08-18  3:01         ` Rob Browning
2006-08-21 23:38           ` Kevin Ryde
2006-08-22  2:03             ` Rob Browning
2006-08-25  1:16               ` Kevin Ryde
2006-08-25  2:39                 ` Rob Browning
2006-08-27 20:06                   ` Rob Browning
2006-08-27 20:22                     ` Rob Browning
2006-08-30  7:50             ` Rob Browning
2006-08-31  0:24               ` Kevin Ryde
2006-08-31  6:28                 ` Rob Browning
2006-09-04  2:45                   ` Rob Browning
2006-09-07 20:46                     ` Kevin Ryde
2006-09-08  2:45                       ` Rob Browning
2006-09-08 23:05                         ` Kevin Ryde
2006-09-09 12:52                           ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2006-09-09 16:39                             ` Rob Browning
2006-09-10 16:24                               ` Rob Browning
2006-09-11  1:16                                 ` Rob Browning
2006-09-11  6:40                                   ` Neil Jerram
2006-09-11 15:57                                     ` Rob Browning
2006-09-11 17:40                                       ` Neil Jerram

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