From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Instability with signals and threads
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141204094214.GD3810@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141128211231.GQ3810@calimero.vinschen.de>
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Mikulas, ping?
On Nov 28 22:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 21 15:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I'm going to take a step back for now, and reevaluate what happens
> > before trying to apply even more hacks. Ultimately the problem is that
> > the cygtls area is accessed from other threads (mainly the signal
> > thread) without locking, and worse, that the lock for the cygtls area is
> > a member of _cygtls itself. The latter needs certainly a patch, and I'm
> > contemplating to extend cygheap::threadlist to become a per-thread
> > structure containing the _cygtls pointer, the thread ID, the main thread
> > HANDLE, and the tls muto. This should allow to serialize access to the
> > cygtls area in a way which avoids the aforementioned problems without
> > a complete redesign.
>
> I applied a patch which is supposed to fix this problem. Your STC
> works for me and everything else I tried, including X and Emacs in X11
> GUI mode still work.
>
> Please try the latest snapshot from https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>
> I'm not expecting that my first cut works OOTB, so I'd be glad for
> more testing.
Thanks,
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-04 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-20 20:24 Mikulas Patocka
2014-11-21 4:24 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-11-21 10:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-21 10:38 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-21 14:43 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-11-21 14:46 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-11-21 14:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-21 16:30 ` Marco Atzeri
2014-11-21 16:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-21 20:36 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-11-21 20:44 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-28 21:13 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-11-28 22:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-12-04 9:42 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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2014-11-19 16:43 Mikulas Patocka
2014-11-19 17:30 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-11-20 10:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-11-20 16:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
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