[M3devel] Status of threads for RC4?

Tony Hosking hosking at cs.purdue.edu
Mon Oct 19 04:04:52 CEST 2009


I don't see anything that changed in the RC threads implementation  
between 9/27 and 9/29.  Did something change in the wrappers?  Or in  
the config file for OpenBSD?

On 18 Oct 2009, at 21:57, Tony Hosking wrote:

> Aha.  That is helpful.  I have a feeling it might be related to the  
> changes I made to Thread.Fork.  But wait, this is code on the RC  
> path right?  Which has a different history?
>
> On 18 Oct 2009, at 18:59, Olaf Wagner wrote:
>
>> Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:
>>
>>> Do we have any idea when this problem started on OpenBSD?  Has it
>>> always been there?
>>
>> No. Look at http://hudson.modula3.com:8080/job/cm3-test-m3tests-I386_OPENBSD/
>> Build #22 on 27. September was the last good one.
>> Build #23 on 29. September hangs at p007.
>>
>>> On 18 Oct 2009, at 14:09, Tony Hosking wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK, now this is more interesting.  We see that thread 2 is  
>>>> trying  to  get a GC cycle initiated by stopping the other  
>>>> threads.  I am   guessing that they are not responding to the  
>>>> thread signal being   sent to them.  Can you try with  
>>>> @M3debugthreads?
>>
>> Jay's server is offline again. I'll try again tomorrow morning.
>> I could have thought of @M3debugthreads myself :-/
>>
>> Olaf
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