[M3devel] formsedit crash

[Tony Hosking]

Not exactly.  The inCritical counter means there are lots of places  
that serialize.

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On 18 Sep 2009, at 06:12, Jay K wrote:

> I thought about this a little..but..don't Modula-3 user threads  
> preempt at arbitrary points?
>
>  - Jay
>
>
> > From: dragisha at m3w.org
> > To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> > Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:37:48 +0200
> > CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> > Subject: Re: [M3devel] formsedit crash
> >
> > I've had some funny race/thread-order conditions when I was  
> switching to
> > pthreads.... Someone lazy got too grooved in with fixed order of
> > execution implied by how user threads work. It was in pp package and
> > also somewhere I can't remember right now... Will look a bit  
> through hm3
> > svn (dead in house spinoff of pm3 from times when all mainstream  
> m3 had
> > was user threads).
> >
> > On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 07:49 +0000, Jay K wrote:
> > > I have it further narrowed down to the last two weeks of 1/2007.
> > > Which is just a few changes.
> > > I fear it is the switch from user threads to pthreads on  
> 1/23/2007.
> > > I'll narrow it down further though, and then try user threads on
> > > Solaris
> > > (which will probably require repairing initialization order to  
> make
> > > them work
> > > again anyway).
> > >
> > > - Jay
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> ______________________________________________________________________
> > > From: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> > > To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> > > Subject: formsedit crash
> > > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:18:54 +0000
> > >
> > > The formsedit crash appears to have started between 12/1/2006 and
> > > 3/1/2007.
> > > I will confirm and further narrow this down over the next few  
> days.
> > > I've been building various dates/versions and seeing how they act.
> > >
> > > - Jay
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > --
> > Dragiša Durić <dragisha at m3w.org>
> >

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