Quick testfeedback...

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 11:52:50AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [ mailto:cgf@redhat.com ]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:04 PM
>> To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
>> Subject: Re: Quick testfeedback...
>> 
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>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 11:43:31AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >This is broadcast.c:
>> 
>> So, if I read that correctly, sleep can be called from a thread.
>> 
>> I checked in a patch that should fix the 
>> call_signal_handler_now SIGSEGV
>> but I don't exactly understand why a signal handler was being called
>> here at all.  It doesn't look like anything in broadcast.c should be
>> generating a signal unless there is another 
>> SIGSEGV/SIGBUS/SIGLL lurking
>> elsewhere.
>> 
>> If that is the case, then the signal handler bug may have been masking
>> another problem.  With luck, my checkin will allow us to see what the
>> problem is.  Or Robert will tell me why there should have 
>> been a signal
>> generated in broadcast.c...
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>There shouldn't have been any errors from pthread, certainly not because
>sleep() was called :|. I've never seen broadcast fail once the first
>version was up and running...
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>Which is why I was so mystified and concerned about it.

I wasn't saying that there were even errors, necessarily.  I thought that
there might have been some signal generated.  It could be a harmless signal
like SIGUSR1 or SIGCHLD or something.

cgf