[ruby-core:23461] Re: [Bug #1471] "Mutual join" deadlock detection faulty in 1.8.6 and 1.8.7

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Excerpts from message of Fri May 15 11:19:51 +0300 2009:
> Here is a test script to trigger it....
> =mutual_join_bug.rb============================================================
> require 'thread'
> 
> m = Mutex.new
> m.lock
> wt2 = Thread.new do
>    m.lock
>    sleep 2
>    m.unlock
> end
> 
> # Ensure wt2 is waiting on m
> sleep 0.1

The analysis looks correct, but usually you would not want
to rely solely on a sleep here, but also check the #status
before proceeding.


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