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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:09:07 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
Subject: Re: Unclear on pthreads status -- release 1.3.3?
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	Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Chris,

On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:29:45PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:04:28AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > I'm ready to release 1.3.3 but it seems like the final reports for
> > pthreads are not yet in.
> > 
> > So, I guess I have another 24 hour wait on this?  Can anyone confirm
> > or deny that Robert's changes have done the trick?
> 
> Rob's changes look good (at least) under Windows 2000.  I'm going to
> drag out my old 4 GB disk with NT 4.0 SP6a and temporarily convert my
> Linux box back to NT.  Just in case that you don't recall, I could only
> reproduce the Python hang problem reliably under NT 4.0.

I just resurrected my NT 4.0 installation which had a Cygwin DLL that
I built on 8/15/01 but with otherwise unknown contents.  Using this DLL,
my Python test case hung frequently but not all of the time.  I thought
that I recalled it hanging all of the time?  Maybe that was my other NT
4.0 box?

Anyway, I replaced the DLL with the one that I have been using on my 2000
box -- latest CVS + Rob's pthreads critical section patch.  Using this
DLL, I have run the Python test case over 1000 times (and still counting)
without any hangs.  So, I think that Rob has fixed the fork/mutex problem.

Please wait until Rob gets a chance to respond to the following:

    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2001-09/msg00221.html
    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2001-09/msg00222.html
    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2001-09/msg00223.html

before releasing 1.3.3.

Thanks,
Jason