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

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-16 14:21:02

On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 12:56 -0600, K. Noel Belcourt wrote:
> The attached patch has been compiled with Sun, Ibm (vacpp), Gcc,  
> Intel, Pathscale, and Pgi unix toolsets.  As you'll notice in the  
> patch, I use both setrlimit, to set a maximum cpu process usage  
> limit, and have logic to compute the elapsed time in seconds to catch  
> processes that hang and fail to consume any cpu.  The setrlimit call  
> is not strictly necessary and could be removed, but I've left it in  
> for now, and it may be useful to constrain other resource usage in  
> the future).

*Thank you*

> If my tests run okay tonight (no hangs or other weirdness), and  
> there's no other objections, I'll commit this patch to the trunk  
> sometime tomorrow.

Wonderful. I have several test machines that haven't produced meaningful
results in a week due to this problem. This is a much-needed addition. 

  - Doug