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Re: [perl #88840] [PATCH] t/op/fork.t blocks in external process test on Win32

 

 

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tony at develop-help

Aug 10, 2012, 12:32 AM

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Re: [perl #88840] [PATCH] t/op/fork.t blocks in external process test on Win32

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 05:59:28PM -0700, bulk 88 via RT wrote:
> Wrote up a patch. fork.t/"fast kill 9 after fork" stopped deadlocking
> for me. I wonder if the 5 ms delay is enough (I really dont know). I
> came up with the 5 ms delay from the previous code that did 5 "Sleep(0)"s.

I tried this and ran t/op/fork.t in a loop.

First time it deadlocked after 7 runs, second it deadlocked after 27
runs.

I increased delay to 10 ms and it successfully ran the test 500 times.

Also, please use git format-patch to produce patches.

Tony

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