Re: mutex held in a thread which is cancelled stays busy

Daniel Eischen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.threading,gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Aug 6, 2019, at 4:54 AM, Erich Dollansky <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> for testing purpose, I did the following.
> 
> Start a thread, initialise a mutex in a global variable, lock the mutex
> and wait in that thread.
> 
> Wait in the main program until above's thread waits and cancel it.
> 
> Clean up behind the cancelled thread but leave intentional the mutex
> locked.
> 
> I would have expected now to get an error like 'EOWNERDEAD' doing
> operations with that mutex. But I get 'EBUSY' as the error.

Are you initializing the mutex as a robust mutex, via pthread_mutexattr_setrobust()?  Are you using _lock() or _trylock()?

For _trylock(), you only get EOWNERDEAD for robust mutexes.  It seems that you should get EOWNERDEAD for _lock() in this case, so if that's what you're doing, it sounds like it might be a bug.

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DE
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