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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 18:35:33 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Multi Threaded programs deadlock doing simple I/O operations
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:43:59PM -0700, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
>There is a serious problem for multi threaded programs doing simple I/O 
>operations in cygwin (open, dup, fdopen, fclose, and close).
>
>The attached 81 line test program clearly demonstrates the issue (by 
>hanging and no longer consuming CPU or performing any I/O operations).

Thanks for the relatively small test case.  That was enough to track the
problem down.  I'm generating a new snapshot with a fix for this
problem.

cgf

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