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RE: fork and mutexs
- To: "'Robert Collins'" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>, <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: fork and mutexs
- From: "Norman Vine" <nhv at cape dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:44:30 -0400
- Cc: <jason at tishler dot net>, <gsmith at nc dot rr dot com>
- Reply-To: <nhv at cape dot com>
Robert Collins writes:
>
>I've just checked in a fix for mutexs, condition variables and
>semaphores in forked process's. I'm amazed we haven't had more
>complaints about this not working before now...
>
>Jason, could you please try your python again. The fix makes the test
>case I created (remember the Pthread_test suite I sent you a while back)
>pass, but there may be more daemons lurk()ing.
Robert
This fails sporadically < sometimes passes, but usually fails >
the python forking regression test with the following error message
python.exe *** Forked() while a mutex has condition variables waiting on it
Let me know what else I can do to help.
Cheers
Norman