Re: Test-lock hang (not 100% reproducible) on GNU/Linux

[Pádraig Brady]

On 04/01/17 10:54, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
> 
>> Can we assume all systems supporting pthreads are conforming to this
>> specs?  That was pretty big (and pretty recent) change of specification.
> 
> The change in the specification [4] mentions that the issue arose with glibc,
> and it points to two tests from the Linux test project [5][6]. Can you run
> these tests on your Koji system? It would be interesting to see if they
> fail or hang as well.

Now that test-lock.c is relatively fast on numa/multicore systems,
it seems like it would be useful to first alarm(30) or something
to protect against infinite hangs?

cheers,
Pádraig