Re: Terrific Dead Lock

2008-04-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, fine. Sorry for forgetting about this. Thanks, applied. (I wonder if SCM_CDR (scm_last_plist_filename) on one thread is guaranteed to give a sane value, if there is another thread simultaneously doing SCM_SETCDR (scm_last_plist_filename) -

Re: Terrific Dead Lock

2008-04-16 Thread Neil Jerram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Hi, Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, fine. Sorry for forgetting about this. Thanks, applied. (I wonder if SCM_CDR (scm_last_plist_filename) on one thread is guaranteed to give a sane value, if there is another thread simultaneously

Re: Terrific Dead Lock

2008-04-15 Thread Neil Jerram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Hi, Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically yes, but two thoughts: - Can I just take a couple more days to review the srcprops changes in detail? It's important for my debugging work, and I recall having some concern when Han-Wen

Re: Terrific Dead Lock

2008-04-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically yes, but two thoughts: - Can I just take a couple more days to review the srcprops changes in detail? It's important for my debugging work, and I recall having some concern when Han-Wen implemented this... Looking at the diffs

Re: Terrific Dead Lock

2008-03-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically yes, but two thoughts: - Can I just take a couple more days to review the srcprops changes in detail? It's important for my debugging work, and I recall having some concern when Han-Wen implemented this... Looking at the diffs

Re: Terrific Dead Lock

2008-03-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Two possibilities to fix it: 1. Copy `srcprop.[ch]' and `eval.c' bits from HEAD to 1.8. After all, it's probably solid enough (I use almost only HEAD). See [0] for an overview of the initial patch. It doesn't break the public

Terrific Dead Lock

2008-03-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, I'm experiencing a dead lock while running the test suite (in a NixOS build), and I don't remember ever seeing it before. Sorry for the long copy/paste, but it helped me understand the problem as I was writing this message. Here we go: (gdb) info threads * 3 Thread 0x40b70b90 (LWP