Re: STC for libapr1 failure

[David Rothenberger <daveroth at acm dot org>]

On 2/14/2012 10:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 14 09:58, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> On 2/14/2012 6:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Feb 14 15:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> On Feb 14 00:00, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>>>> The libapr1 test cases are failing again for flock locks. This same
>>>>> test case failed with 1.7.9 with a fatal error[1], but that was
>>>>> corrected. The test is no longer encountering the fatal error, but
>>>>> it is producing the wrong result.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the testcase.  I think I found the issue.  An event handle
>>>> was closed in the wrong place, outside of the important mutex lock for
>>>> the lock object.  I applied the patch to CVS.  Your testcase now appears
>>>> to run fine for me.  Can you try your entire testsuite again and see
>>>> if there's another failure lurking?
>>>
>>> I uploaded a snapshot for testing.
>>
>> Thanks. The snapshot fixes the flock test case, but now the fcntl test
>> case is failing.
> 
> *Sob*.  How so?  Does it hang or does it allow multiple concurrent
> exclusive locks as the flock case?

Sorry, I should have said. It hangs.

>> I'll try to send an STC for that case, but I suspect the one from last
>> year will have the problem.
> 
> Please send it anyway.

It's attached. If you run it with an argument (any argument), each child
will print its loop count and you can see what happens. If it doesn't
hang for you, try increasing MAX_ITER or CHILDREN at the top.



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