Re: Intermittent failures retrieving process exit codes

[Denis Excoffier <cygwin@Denis-Excoffier.org>]

On 2013-11-15 20:21, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 07:53:26PM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote:
>> On 2013-11-14 05:01, Tom Honermann wrote:
>>> On 12/21/2012 01:30 AM, Tom Honermann wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The workaround I implemented within Cygwin was simple and sloppy.  I
>>>> added a call to Sleep(1000) immediately before the call to ExitThread()
>>>> in wait_sig() in winsup/cygwin/sigproc.cc.  Since this thread (probably)
>>>> doesn't exit until the process is exiting anyway, the call to Sleep()
>>>> does not adversely affect shutdown.  The thread just gets terminated
>>>> while in the call to Sleep() instead of exiting before the process is
>>>> terminated or getting terminated while still in the call to
>>>> ExitThread().  A better solution might be to avoid the thread exiting at
>>>> all (so long as it can't get terminated while holding critical
>>>> resources), or to have the process exiting thread wait on it.  Neither
>>>> of these is ideal.  Orderly shutdown of multi-threaded processes is
>>>> really hard to do correctly on Windows.
>> 
>> I experience on Windows 7 (not on XP) some problems that may be related.
>> I would like to test your workaround, but sigproc.cc has much changed since
>> then, there is now an exit_thead function with the comment "Exit the current
>> thread very carefully.". I tried to insert Sleep(1000) at the end of
>> exit_thread, immediately before "ExitThread (0)", but this yielded no
>> change at all.
>> 
>> Could someone be kind enough to update the workaround for modern sigproc.cc?
> 
> You apparently are misunderstanding the whole point of the changes to
> sigproc.cc.  They were to work around this very problem.

Oh, i didn’t remember that. Then this must be the antivirus or something else
i have to cope with.

Regards,

Denis Excoffier.


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