[M3devel] Status of threads for RC4?

[Tony Hosking]

Yes, a C test can tell us if threads waiting on mutexes are able to  
receive pthread_kill signals.

On 21 Oct 2009, at 03:21, Olaf Wagner wrote:

> Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:
>
>> Is it reasonable maybe to rewrite this test in C and see if it hangs?
>>
>> ie. see if maybe it is an OpenBSD bug?
>
> It doesn't hang with garbage collection turned off, so there must be
> some unhealthy interaction between that and the thread implementation.
> I don't think you will be able to narrow it down with a C test.
>
> Olaf
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