Another glibc Hurd signal code deadlock: Mach thread_suspend sporadically returning KERN_FAILURE

2012-12-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! (As recently reported on IRC already.) During a binutils build (running its testsuite): [...] make[5]: Entering directory `/media/erich/home/thomas/tmp/binutils/git.build/ld' Making a new site.exp file... make: hurdsig.c:948: post_signal: Unexpected error: (os/kern) failure.

Re: Another glibc Hurd signal code deadlock: Mach thread_suspend sporadically returning KERN_FAILURE

2012-12-20 Thread Richard Braun
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 03:25:35PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > So -- what about this failure mode of thread_suspend? Is it expected, > and needs to be handled? Where is it coming from? The failure is specific to GNU Mach and was introduced recently in 0a55db5302a78ea51a1b4e4ff3ba632f34b2f6af

Re: Another glibc Hurd signal code deadlock: Mach thread_suspend sporadically returning KERN_FAILURE

2012-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Thu 20 Dec 2012 15:25:35 +0100, a écrit : > make: hurdsig.c:948: post_signal: Unexpected error: (os/kern) failure. That's good news that we have an idea where that can come from: I've seeing it quite often on the buildds since some time, most notably in for haskell packages