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Re: PATCH: boehm-gc SIGINT handling (linux)
- To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>
- Subject: Re: PATCH: boehm-gc SIGINT handling (linux)
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 15:50:03 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: java-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, hboehm at exch dot hpl dot hp dot com
- References: <384EC006.124E0387@albatross.co.nz>
>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz> writes:
Bryce> Boehm-gc blocks all signals to threads waiting for a
Bryce> SIG_RESTART during a collection. This can result in a deadlock
Bryce> if Ctrl-C is pressed during a collection (some threads get left
Bryce> waiting for the SIG_RESTART when the thread doing the
Bryce> collection has gone).
I don't have time to look at this right now :-(
However, I noticed you CC'd Hans. If he likes the patch, that's good
enough for me.
Tom