[gambit-list] Deadlock in the REPL
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Wed Jun 11 09:32:00 EDT 2014
On Jun 11, 2014, at 9:02 AM, Vijay Mathew <vijay.the.lisper at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it not possible for a background thread to eventually signal the condition variable?
>
> -- vijay
Yes it is possible. But Gambit’s scheduler has detected that there are no background threads running, so there is definitely a deadlock!
Just start a background thread and the deadlock exception will go away.
Marc
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