[M3devel] Status of threads for RC4?

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu>:

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

Could you add such a simple test program somewhere in m3tests or
m3core/tests? We could also use that for a bug report to the
OpenBSD developers (they won't like to install m3 to reproduce
the error).

Olaf

> 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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