Re: ruby1.9.1 hangs again

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>]

On 29/08/11 at 14:05 +0200, Petr Salinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> >A change in Ruby caused it to hang again, likely due to a pthread
> >semantic difference on kfreebsd. It doesn't hang, neither on Linux nor
> >on FreeBSD.
> >
> >Affected package is the experimental one. It's a pre-release snapshot
> >(candidate RC1) for Ruby 1.9.3, to be released in september, and likely
> >the default Ruby implementation in wheezy.
> >
> >Please see http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5240
> 
> Many thanks for bisecting it.
> I looked at the diff 32243:32244.
> 
> The change in general should work even for our slightly broken pthread semantic.
> It should be possible to workaround it by encapsulating
> timer_thread_pipe_owner_proces usage.

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback.

Would you have time to turn that into a (tested ;) ) patch?

L.