From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Wed Feb 17 1999 - 05:07:59 EST
On Feb 14, 1999, Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> wrote:
> BTW, there are some tests that keep running forever, particularly on
> IRIX 6.3 and Solaris 2.5.
Fixed on Solaris 2.5, as you may have noticed.
> I was planning on adding daemon threads to these tests that would
> time-out after, say, 1 minute. Does this sound reasonable?
It might sound reasonable, but it is not ;-)
Just as the scheduler fails to time-out the connection it is waiting
for, it won't wake up the deamon thread. If we're going to have a
strong time-out mechanism, it will have to be outside the KVM :-(
On IRIX, it seems that signals fail to be delivered, or do not cause
select() to return. I'm still investigating
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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