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bug#52646: GC thread freeze
From: |
Mathieu Othacehe |
Subject: |
bug#52646: GC thread freeze |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:15:06 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hey!
> This is happening in this order, right?
Right, plus I don't see the following warning:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
warning: call to primitive-fork while multiple threads are running;
further behavior unspecified. See "Processes" in the
manual, for more information
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
so I guess the issue is elsewhere.
> POSIX leaves unspecified the behavior of a child process forked from a
> multi-threaded process; there could be deadlocks, etc. ‘primitive-fork’
> prints a warning when called from a multi-threaded Guile process.
>
> The solution is for multi-threaded Guile processes to not fork at all,
> or to fork only via ‘open-pipe*’, ‘system*’, etc., which are “known
> good” (they take care of post-fork handling in the child and call ‘exec’
> before anything bad could happen.)
Thanks for clarifying that anyway.
Mathieu