[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] Prevent deadlock^Wrace on thread termination

[Tim Northover]

Ping?

Tim.

On Tuesday 25 June 2013 20:41:51 Tim Northover wrote:
> LLDB often segfaults when exiting on my version of Linux. I eventually
> tracked this down to the m_read_thread variable being set to 0 during the
> execution of Communication::StopReadThread, causing an invalid pthread_join
> call (with 0 thread id).
> 
> I think the only two threads involved are the stopper and the read thread
> itself, which also sets m_read_thread to 0. The attached patch leaves all
> such changes to StopReadThread and fixes the issue on my machine.
> 
> What I'm not sure of are the consequences if the thread exits naturally. It
> looks like you'll get an error one way or the other from trying to read
> anyway, but I'm new to the code so could be wrong.
> 
> Should I commit?
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