Re: Drat, Test/A05 still hanging sometimes

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:42:55 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The interesting thing is where it is stuck.
> 
> The "runtests.zsh" thread is blocked on sigsuspend() in the "for file" loop,
> waiting for the the $ZTST_exe thread to finish.
> 
> The $ZTST_exe thread is trying to exit -- in my case it is stuck on a mutex
> with no zsh code left in the gdb-able call stack backtrace.
> 
> Strangely, though, if I kill that thread, the runtests thread also dies,
> and the entire "make" aborts.  The "for file" loop is written in a way that
> I would have expected runtests to simply continue on to the next pass.
> 
> I'm baffled.

As this isn't new, and isn't easily tractable at the moment, I'm not
planning on holding up 5.0.7.

I suppose it's likely to be another missing queue_signals(), the
question is where.

pws