Hello Friends -
I've run across the following situation. I have two threads, say T1 and
T2 which access shared data - each locks a mutex before doing so.
Now I have a hard-to-find bug which means that periodically T1 gets
killed unexpectedly. But if it holds the mutex at that point, T2 blocks
for ever!
How can I get T1 to release any locks it's holding when it gets killed? 6 1322
CJ <di*********@in valid.invalidwr ites:
Hello Friends -
I've run across the following situation. I have two threads, say T1 and
T2 which access shared data - each locks a mutex before doing so.
Now I have a hard-to-find bug which means that periodically T1 gets
killed unexpectedly. But if it holds the mutex at that point, T2 blocks
for ever!
How can I get T1 to release any locks it's holding when it gets killed?
Find and fix the bug that gets it killed. Anything else will only
cause you more trouble later on.
Follow-ups set to comp.unix.progr ammer as this is not directly related
to the C language.
--
Måns Rullgård ma**@mansr.com
CJ <di*********@in valid.invalidwr ites:
I've run across the following situation. I have two threads, say T1 and
T2 which access shared data - each locks a mutex before doing so.
Now I have a hard-to-find bug which means that periodically T1 gets
killed unexpectedly. But if it holds the mutex at that point, T2 blocks
for ever!
How can I get T1 to release any locks it's holding when it gets killed?
Standard C has no threads, so comp.lang.c isn't the place to ask about this.
I've redirected followups to just comp.unix.progr ammer (not that it
will do any good), but comp.programmin g.threads might also be a good
place to ask.
--
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San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
On 29 Oct 2007 at 21:05, Måns Rullgård wrote:
CJ <di*********@in valid.invalidwr ites:
>Hello Friends -
I've run across the following situation. I have two threads, say T1 and T2 which access shared data - each locks a mutex before doing so.
Now I have a hard-to-find bug which means that periodically T1 gets killed unexpectedly. But if it holds the mutex at that point, T2 blocks for ever!
How can I get T1 to release any locks it's holding when it gets killed?
Find and fix the bug that gets it killed. Anything else will only
cause you more trouble later on.
I promise you, not fixing the bug is not the result of lack of will! It
basically comes down to some completely unmanageable and unpenetrable
code that we have to work with. We can basically work around the bug,
but the only problem is the dead thread keeping its locks - there must
be a solution to that?
On Oct 29, 4:24 pm, CJ <diespamm...@in valid.invalidwr ote:
I promise you, not fixing the bug is not the result of lack of will! It
basically comes down to some completely unmanageable and unpenetrable
code that we have to work with. We can basically work around the bug,
but the only problem is the dead thread keeping its locks - there must
be a solution to that?
Run the broken code in its own process. Threads are not isolated from
each other. There is no such thing as a "dead thread", only a crashed
process.
DS
CJ wrote:
Måns Rullgård wrote:
>CJ <di*********@in valid.invalidwr ites:
>>I've run across the following situation. I have two threads, say T1 and T2 which access shared data - each locks a mutex before doing so.
Now I have a hard-to-find bug which means that periodically T1 gets killed unexpectedly. But if it holds the mutex at that point, T2 blocks for ever!
How can I get T1 to release any locks it's holding when it gets killed?
Find and fix the bug that gets it killed. Anything else will only cause you more trouble later on.
I promise you, not fixing the bug is not the result of lack of
will! It basically comes down to some completely unmanageable
and unpenetrable code that we have to work with. We can basically
work around the bug, but the only problem is the dead thread
keeping its locks - there must be a solution to that?
I thought you had already been told this is off-topic on c.l.c,
because standard C has no threads. You need a newsgroup that deals
with your system, such as comp.unix.progr ammer.
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On Oct 29, 4:24 pm, CJ <diespamm...@in valid.invalidwr ote:
I promise you, not fixing the bug is not the result of lack of will! It
basically comes down to some completely unmanageable and unpenetrable
code that we have to work with. We can basically work around the bug,
but the only problem is the dead thread keeping its locks - there must
be a solution to that?
Run the broken code in its own process. Threads are not isolated from
each other. There is no such thing as a "dead thread", only a crashed
process.
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