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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next prev parent 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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