Re: open-pipe deadlocked

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-[ Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 11:45:37PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès ]----
> Hi Cédric,
> 
> address@hidden skribis:
> 
> > I attached 2 files:
> >
> > - "guile deadlock.scm > /tmp/log" deadlocks after around 12k lines of 
> > output for me
> 
> AFAICS the problem does not occur with Guile 2.0.
> For 1.8, could you try running Helgrind and see what happens?

Will do.

> > - more surprisingly, "guile crash.scm > /dev/log" segfaults with this
> >   backtrace :
> 
> Well yes, ports still aren???t thread-safe ;-) so this is bound to crash
> in unexpected ways.
> 
> With Guile 2.0, it always ends up with:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ERROR: In procedure display:
> ERROR: In procedure fport_write: Bad address
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

With guile 2.0.2 it sometimes ends with this or sometime segfaults. See
the ticket I opened at savannah here for a backtrace:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33996