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Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:13:24 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Cc:	Dan Bonachea <dobonachea AT lbl DOT gov>, gasnet-devel AT lbl DOT gov
Subject:	Re: Bug: Incorrect signal behavior in multi-threaded processes
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On Jan 20 15:33, Dan Bonachea wrote:
> I'm writing to report some POSIX compliance problems with Cygwin
> signal handling in the presence of multiple pthreads that our group
> has encountered in our parallel scientific computing codes.
>=20
> A minimal test program is copied below and also available here:
> https://upc-bugs.lbl.gov/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=3D589
>=20
> I believe the test program is fully compliant with ISO C 99 and POSIX
> 1003.1-2016. In a nutshell, it registers one signal handler, spawns a
> number of pthreads, and then synchronously generates a signal from
> exactly one thread while others sit in a pthread_barrier_wait. The
> "throwing" thread and signal number can be varied from the command
> line, and diagnostic output indicates what happened.
> [...]
> Is there any hope of this situation ever improving?

Signal handling is a real beast and phread_barriers probably haven't
been tested as extensively yet as your testcase.

No guarantees for a patch, but I'll look into that as time permits.

Patches to fix bugs are very welcome: https://cygwin.com/contrib.html


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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