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RE: 1.3.4?
- To: "Jason Tishler" <jason at tishler dot net>,<cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: 1.3.4?
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:54:33 +1000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Tishler [mailto:jason@tishler.net]
>
> While trying to release my first threaded Python
> distribution, I believe
> that I have found another pthreads hang. For those
> interested, see the
> attached for a gdb session.
This is a *known* race condition. It has always existed on 9x, and I had
no choice for NT about introducing it. I'm working on some upgrades to
the muto object which will _hopefully_ allow a correct fix for both
platforms.
The race is that an event can get missed if one thread is entering a
wait just when another signals.
Rob