Re: [boost] [thread] Fails on 64-bit Linux?

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-12 16:17:53

Anthony Williams wrote:
> Martin Wille <mw8329_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>> John Maddock wrote:
>>> Anyone any ideas about the remaining thread library regressions: 
>>> http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/issues_release_.html#thread 
>>> they're causing Boost.Regex failures as well apart from anything else :-(
>> That one is twofold. There's an error due to a resource limit (which I
>> can lift). There's a second error described in
>> http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1323
> 
> The assertion failure is not a bug in the thread library. It is a bug in the
> way the test is run: when the resource limit failure is thrown, a condition
> variable is destroyed whilst there are still threads waiting on it.
> 
> I am not sure which aspect of the test-running is causing that problem.

The tests simply are run with a limit on RLIMIT_NPROC.

Or are you referring to the code of the test itself?

Regards,
m