Re: Found deadlock bug

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, February 20, 2002, at 06:56 PM, Stephen Brandon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> found the little scumbag of a bug, after spending all $%^&* day on it.
>
> It's in NSUser.m:579 - the global lock was not being released except in 
> the
> exception handler.
>
> The patch:
>
> diff -r1.56 NSUser.m
> 578a579
> >   [gnustep_global_lock unlock];
>
> The bug manifested itself by causing the main thread to always hog the 
> first
> lock in the NSRecursiveLock. Thus any time any other thread tried to do 
> an
> operation requiring gnustep_global_lock locking, it would deadlock.

Thanks very much for that one.
Change committed to CVS.