Re: Hang in srfi-18.test

[Neil Jerram]

2008/10/18 Neil Jerram <address@hidden>:
> Just a heads up...
>
> I'm seeing a hang in srfi-18.test, when running make check in master,
> in the "exception handler installation is thread-safe" test.  It's not
> 100% reproducible, so looks like there's a race involved.
>
> I think the problem is that wait-condition-variable is not actually
> atomic in the way that it is supposed to be.  It unlocks the mutex,
> then starts waiting on the cond var.  So it is possible for another
> thread to lock the same mutex, and signal the cond var, before the
> wait-condition-variable thread starts waiting.
>
> I don't currently have a solution, but I'm working on it...

The attached patch seems to work.  I'll write more to explain later!

      Neil

0001-Fix-hang-in-srfi-18.test.patch
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