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Re: deadlock with busy waiting on sigfe
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 04:45:54PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 04:35:41AM +0900, jojelino wrote:
>>On 2013-03-11 PM 11:36, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> A "proper bug report" would at least include what you were actually doing
>>> to trigger this problem.
>>>
>>I was trying to CTRL+C cygwin python process that is executing some
>>operation and fell asleep for 60 seconds repeatedly. I'm pretty sure
>>that the process was sleeping as i tried interrupt it.
>>
>>> Are you sure that there are only two threads executing here? It seems like
>>> this is a symptom of another thread holding the lock.
>>>
>>It's unlikely the case because there was two thread running when
>>livelock observed.
>
>How about if you humor me and do a "show threads" rather than just
>asserting that it was unlikely?
Actually, if you are running this on a DOS console, and you hit CTRL-C,
you will have at least one other thread executing.
Were you running this under mintty (aka a pty) or in a Windows cmd
shell?
cgf
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