On 02.12.2013 01:29, Eric Covener wrote: > I am looking at a httpd bug that causes a hang on windows but succeeds on > unix. > > It seems that (short) files are opened w/ buffering, read, > apr_file_closed, and read again [succesfully on unix] > > On Unix, they sare satisfied out of the buffer. file->fileset is -1. > On Windows, the destroyed apr_thread_mutex causes a hang. > > Is reading from the closed file on the extreme bogus end of the > spectrum as I suspect and just getting lucky on the unix case?
I'd certainly call a successful read from a closed file a bug. > Should they blow up in 2.0 during a read if they've been closed? Dunno ... my gut feeling in cases like this is to just leave it be. Developers should have some fun finding heisenbugs, too. :) -- Brane