RE: pthread_kill: signals remain pending after target thread exits

[John Carey <aeolus@electric-cloud.com>]

> From: Corinna Vinschen [corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 1:02 AM
> On Oct 28 10:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
...
> > > Thanks; that was fast!  I tried replacing cygwin1.dll with cygwin1-20151023.dll .
> > >
> > > The original test case now works.  I checked some of my other tests,
> > > and unfortunately some of them failed, so I extracted out a new test
> > > case, which is attached.  My guess is that something is subtly different
> > > about the timing on this test.
> >
> > Is this a regression?  Did it work with 2.2.1?
> 
> Answering myself here, this didn't work at all in 2.2.1.  I can
> reproduce the problem and I'm going to take a look.  Not sure if
> there's a quick solution, though.  This looks like a deadlock
> situation.  The signal definitely got send, I just don't see yet
> why it's not handled in wait_sig.

Yes, test_pending_signal2.c fails in 2.2.1, though the symptoms
differ: there is no Cygwin process left hanging that cannot be
killed by a Cygwin signal.

But both tests appear to pass in Cygwin 1.7.9, so in that sense
it is a regression, just not a recent one.

-- John Carey

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