Re: non-deterministic test failure

[Neil Jerram]

"Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <address@hidden> writes:

> hi,
>
> during the last month or so, the threads test in 1.9.x has been failing
> for me (debian unstable, x86 box) intermittently, with the message:
>
> FAIL: threads.test: lock-mutex: timed locking succeeds if mutex unlocked
> within timeout
>
> it happens every now and then, but i haven't been able to pin down the
> cause (i'm not familiar with the code and haven't looked at it much), or
> to reproduce the error consistently (although with the current it seems
> to happen almost always). am i the only one?

No, I think I've seen this too.  Intermittently though, as you say.

     Neil