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Re: Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem
On Jan 18 10:52, Brett Serkez wrote:
> [snip]
> > > I also find the sleep(2000) in heap.cc when the mapping error is
> > > detected rather suspicious - is this to avoid a race condition with
> > > the parent?
> >
> > Dunno, suspect it may have been something experimental. Take a look
> > at when it arrived in the CVS and check the associated changelog
> > entry.
>
> Humm.... I wonder if this is contributing the slowness I've been seeing
> during process creation.... In your opinion, is this code (sleep)
> likely to be hit often? By any chance, how do you know how sleep is
> implemented, does it use the OS to be awakened, or does it loop?
It's Sleep, not sleep. Sleep is the Win32 version which takes a ms
argument. I'm not sure why it is where it is (I assume for debugging
purposes), but it doesn't hurt *at all*. When it's hit, the next step
is to call api_fatal, which aborts the application anyway.
Corinna
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