Re: Recent 4.1 breakage...

[Howard Hinnant <hhinnant at apple dot com>]

On May 18, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Loren James Rittle wrote:

> That leave just one failure which has existed (for an unknown amount
> of time since I hadn't bootstrapped in ages):
>
> Assertion failed: (oss.str() == "Whatever"), function test01, file  
> [...]
> libstdc++-v3/testsuite/27_io/basic_filebuf/seekoff/char/26777.cc,  
> line 79.
> FAIL: 27_io/basic_filebuf/seekoff/char/26777.cc execution test

> Regarding the first point: what appears to have happened on my machine
> is that some test (or multiple tests) obtains an semaphore from the
> system but doesn't always release it.  My machine is configured with
> 10 semaphores.  After running the test suite N times, they were  
> exhausted.

It appears that if libstdc++-v3/testsuite/27_io/basic_filebuf/seekoff/ 
char/26777.cc exits in this manner then it never calls s1.~semaphore 
() and s2.~semaphore(), each of which would have called:

      semctl(sem_set_, 0, IPC_RMID, val);

If I'm understanding your point above, on your system if a process  
terminates without releasing a semaphore, that semaphore is lost  
forever?

-Howard