bug#36609: 27.0.50; Possible race-condition in threading implementation

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On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 8:52 PM Andreas Politz
<politza@hochschule-trier.de> wrote:
> I think there is a race-condition in the implementation of threads.  I
> tried to find a minimal test-case, without success.  Thus, I've attached
> a lengthy source-file.  Loading that file should trigger this bug and
> may freeze your session.

It does here, so I can provide further debugging information if
needed. On first glance, it appears that xgselect returns abnormally
with g_main_context acquired in one thread, and then other threads
fail to acquire it and loop endlessly.

Can you confirm that this very dirty patch avoids (it's not a fix by
any means!) the problem?

Avoid-glib-issue.patch
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