[ros-dev] Kernel32 race condition

[Alex Ionescu]

Ge van Geldorp wrote:

>>From: Alex Ionescu
>>
>>I have some loader fixes which handle serialization and fix 
>>similar race conditions. If you look on my blog, you can see 
>>the timeframe for when I plan to commit them... if you're not 
>>going to submit the shutdown code until then, then you can 
>>probably consider this issue fixed and work on other 
>>problems. Of course, if you prefer, you can write a quick 
>>hack if you need this working now :)
>>    
>>
>
>I had promised TwoTailedFox to commit my shutdown work this week. The race
>condition only results in a usermode exception, terminating the thread.
>Since the process was going to exit anyway, it's not really a big deal and
>doesn't block my progress. The reason I brought it up was that race
>conditions like this are generally hard to reproduce, so when I do hit a
>reproducible case I tend to start fixing it before moving on.
>So, in this case I'll continue on the shutdown stuff and commit it this
>week, leaving the kernel32 issue to you.
>
>GvG
>  
>
Hi,

Thanks,

I'm -really- busy this week (paid work) so if you have some extra time 
to write a test case (which spefically hits this race condition) I would 
really appreciate that... I can do it myself later, but it's just 
something that might take you only 10 minutes to work on since you've 
diagnosed the issue. It woudl be a good generic regression test too... 
just a thought..and only if you have a lot of free time for it.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu