GNU bug report logs - #41948
Shepherd deadlocks

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>

Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 08:42:01 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #42 received at 41948-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 41948-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41948: Shepherd deadlocks
Date: Sat, 08 May 2021 22:52:24 +0200
Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> While working on a fix for this issue (finalizer pipe shared between
>> parent and child process), I found the ‘sleep_pipe’ of the main thread
>> is also shared between the parent and its child.
>
> Here’s a patch that fixes the problem as exposed by the reproducer.

I went ahead and pushed as 381291f5ff4480afbb197bf5e5a2272cfe54a386,
together with a test derived from the one I posted earlier.

With this and Andrew’s finalizer pipe patch, we should be good!

This will be in the upcoming Guile 3.0.7 release.

Ludo’.




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