From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: 1.8 make check failing in popen.test Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:52:27 +0300 Message-ID: <87k64d8ano.fsf@zagadka.de> References: <87vepora1r.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87y7tqo0po.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87r6zhlhhk.fsf@zip.com.au> <87ejvho4ve.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87mza4uurn.fsf@zip.com.au> <87bqqieohh.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87pset1wxr.fsf@zip.com.au> <87irka4q8f.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <878xl5ah1i.fsf@zip.com.au> <878xl5wh9j.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <878xl0cpu4.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <8764fz76c0.fsf@zip.com.au> <87hczjyt2d.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87y7suvu0i.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157806369 771 80.91.229.2 (9 Sep 2006 12:52:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 09 14:52:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GM2K6-0007IU-2T for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:52:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GM2K5-0006NH-ID for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GM2K2-0006Mv-5s for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:52:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GM2Jz-0006MR-KG for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GM2Jz-0006MH-AW for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.243.153.40] (helo=smtp6.pp.htv.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GM2Kn-0002Om-Cs for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:53:21 -0400 Original-Received: from zagadka.ping.de (cs181072157.pp.htv.fi [82.181.72.157]) by smtp6.pp.htv.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id C429D5BC066 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:52:28 +0300 (EEST) Original-Received: (qmail 30046 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Sep 2006 15:52:27 +0300 Original-To: Rob Browning In-Reply-To: <87y7suvu0i.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Sat\, 09 Sep 2006 09\:05\:49 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6071 Archived-At: Kevin Ryde writes: > Rob Browning 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...) -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel