Re: Solaris 8 and pthread issues. [ Resolved ]

[Anand Narwani]

Folks,
After trying several things, I finally threw in the
towel and upgraded the OS to Solaris 9.  This fixed
the problem.  So my question is:  Does anyone know
what Solaris 8 Patch might have the same effect?

Thanks,
Anand
--- Anand Narwani <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Fredrico,
> I ran some tests and added cout's to event.cpp it
> appears that the calls to get blocked in
> pthread_cond_wait* calls.  I will attempt to re-run
> those tests and I'll send you the output.
> 
> Thanks,
> Anand
> --- Federico Montesino Pouzols <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > 
> >     I have just tried this on a Debian GNU/Linux box
> > and it worked
> > well, so as you suggest it is probably a platform
> > specific issue. Any
> > other details about what happens on your platform
> > when you run this
> > program? Could you confirm if it gets blocked in
> the
> > pthread_... system call?
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:41:01PM -0700, Anand
> > Narwani wrote:
> > > Hello Folks,
> > > I am attempting to write a simple program using
> > Common
> > > C++2 1.0.3 on Solaris 8.  Here is the code:
> > > 
> > > /**** Code Starts Here ****/
> > > /***** Code Ends Here ****/
> > > 
> > > I've attempted to run this with GCC 2.95.2 and
> > also
> > > GCC 3.2 both seem to have the same results: 
> > > Event::wait() never returns when I do a
> > > Event::signal().  If I test with
> > Event::wait(timeout),
> > > it never times out.  
> > > I've looked at the source for the Event Class
> and
> > I
> > > can see the call to pthread_cond_wait() or
> > > pthread_cond_waittimeout().  When these are
> > called,
> > > neither one returns.  I've searched and searched
> > the
> > > newsgroups and the web.  The only issue I've
> found
> > is
> > > that Solaris *might* have a problem with
> recursive
> > > mutexes.  Has anyone experienced problems like
> > this? 
> > > Am I missing something silly?
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Anand
> > 
> > 
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