Re: [Boost-testing] [interprocess] upgradeable_mutex_test deadlocking on sun-5.8

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-14 11:30:37

Doug Gregor wrote:
> The upgradeable_mutex_test test in the interprocess library is  
> deadlocking on sun-5.8 (Sparc).
> 
> This kind of problem is breaking our regression testing too often.  
> It's not Ion's fault: the regression testing needs to be robust  
> against this kind of failure. On Windows, we have the built-monitor  
> option to kill stuck processes. On Unix, we could just set the ulimit  
> and be done with it... but how to integrate this into bjam/BBv2?

First, don't use build monitor :-) Use the bjam -l option. And second, 
we just need to someone familiar enough with sub-process management on 
Unix (and it's variants) to implement the -l option 
<http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1266>.

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