[Bug nptl/13165] pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent before it started waiting

[triegel at redhat dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13165

--- Comment #32 from Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com> 2012-09-21 15:44:30 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #28)
> (In reply to comment #27)
> > I disagree strongly that the spec even allows Torvald's interpretation.
> > Torvald's claim is essentially that an implementation can consider an
> > unspecified set of threads beyond those which "have blocked" per the
> > specification of pthread_cond_wait to also "have blocked" on the condition.
> 
> Yes, that's what he claims.

Not quite, as I point out in comment #30.

> Anyway, this whole dispute has been reduced to the question of which threads
> are eligible for wakeup, so I've taken the liberty to post a clarification
> request to the Austin Group, asking them to add explicit text explaining which
> threads should be considered blocked with respect to a pthread_cond_signal()
> call. The clarification request is at
> http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=609. Torvald, please correct me if have
> inadvertently misrepresented your position.

Thanks.  I have added a note there that summarizes the interpretation that the
current implementation is based on.  Let's see what they think about this
issue.

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