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Re: cygthread::cygthread() hang
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 01:02:30AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:23:27AM -0500, Joe Buehler wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>h is only set once when the thread is first started up. cygthread
>>>threads are persistent to avoid thread creation/exit.
>>>
>>>If this is truly a case of h being NULL in the above, then add code to
>>>catch that in the ifdef DEBUGGING case.
>>
>>I added some code in cygthread::new() to make sure that h is set when
>>new() exits. I have still run into the problem -- h is 0 when
>>cygthread::cygthread() tests it. So it is being clobbered after
>>new() initializes it.
>
>There was a race in new. Don't know if this is what you were seeing
>or not. It should be fixed now.
Argh. There's still a race there. I have to think about this some more.
cgf