On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:05:21PM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
Peter Schneider-Kamp writes:
Could SMP be involved? Do you get the same on a non-SMP system? Do others have the same problem with SMP systems?
I think Barry may have access to an SMP Sparc machine; if so, we'll be checking it out there.
I have also seen test_fork1 failures on BSDI, using a SMP machine, but I haven't tried it on non-SMP (we don't have too many of those). However, all our BSDI kernels are the same, having been built for SMP. Meetings permitting (which is doubtful, today :-() I'll see if I can pin that down. It would, however, be fairly peculiar if test_fork1 breaks on all SMP-supporting systems... I don't really recall a reason for thread semantics to change reliably based on kernel/cpu settings, and it would be silly for them to do so! But I'll admit threads are silly, period ;-) 6-AM-and-preparing-for-a-full-10-hour-day-of-meetings-:-S-ly y'rs, -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!