Re: Many pthread failures in the test suite, one setgroup failure

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:13:12AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 10:08, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:49:56AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >I've implemented syncronisation around the pthread_mutex initialisation.
>> >This will not impact performance except for *really badly* written
>> >programs, as mutex creation is rare.
>> >
>> >I still can't reproduce the problem myself, but the changes just checked
>> >in cause no regressions for the test suite here.
>> >
>> >Chris, does this help?
>> 
>> Actually, it seems to have caused the problem to occur much more now.
>> I'm rerunning the whole testsuite to see if there are regressions.
>
>Urggle. I've got to go do real work for a while. Is there any chance you
>can give me ssh access to the failing machine?

Not easily.  I'm behind a firewall.  I'll tinker some and see if it is
possible.

I was wrong in my original assessment of what is going on.  It's dying
in a different place now.  It is failing on line 94 of condvar6.c.
And, it doesn't always fail.  It seemed to work the first time I ran
it.

cgf