Re: [Valgrind-users] valgrind pthreads mutex bug

[Jeremy F. <je...@go...>]

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 18:09, Andraz Tori wrote:

> The problem is that main maintainer has... mildly said ... strange
> attitutde towards any external work done. to my experience he would
> never accept external patch to fix this.


Ah well, that's unfortunate.


> Thanks ! But aren't condvars slower than mutexes? (i would imagine)


Don't know; I've never measured them.  But that's unimportant if mutexes
are the wrong mechanism to use.


> here it is, relevant part of the log file...
> mutex 0x41a9f2a4 is being unlocked, and perror says successefuly, on the
> next usage it blocks on lock...


OK, we should make valgrind mutexes more picky.

    J