[M3devel] formsedit crash

[Tony Hosking]

Indeed, I fixed one of these races sometime back when switching to  
pthreads.  Should be in the logs.

AFAIK formsedit now works.

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On 18 Sep 2009, at 05:37, Dragiša Durić wrote:

> 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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