On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:54:35PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch said: > > Probably select have been called without timeout. > > Yes that's true. But the event thread wakes up the io_thread (s. > stop_io_thread). This seems to fail with PTH as it doesn't preempt. > > Looking at the code, this seems to happen, when a thread is created and > never started. The main interpreter tries to join that thread > nethertheless. I've set another flag which should cure this flaw.
FWIW, and I have no idea if it's related, I've been hitting problems with threads in $other project. The problem boiled down the fact that mutexes can be either fast, recursive or error checking. The 'fast' type doesn't care about thread ownership and can be unlocked by anything. *BSD and Solaris all use 'error checking' whilst linux, for some unknown reason, defaults to 'fast' which can cause a whole host of problems. This may or may not be what we're seeing here. This thread ... http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1560582&forum_id=7710 gives more details. Simon
