Charles E Campbell wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > Back to the patch#866 problem I'm having. I'm using vim 7.4.1416:
> >
> > * using efence: links fine, but won't run (runs out of memory)
> > * using valgrind: works
> > * using valgrind --leak-check=full: works
> >
> > As can be seen from the trace below, the program hangs in a call to
> > nanosleep
> > in mch_delay(). The parameters to the nanosleep call seem to me to be
> > correct.
> >
> > I put in the following code in mch_delay to force HAVE_USLEEP at line 632:
> >
> > #undef HAVE_NANOSLEEP
> > #ifndef HAVE_USLEEP
> > # define HAVE_USLEEP
> > #endif
> >
> > This, too, "fixes" the problem. I wrote a small program which exercises
> > nanosleep with the same time delay (5ms) and it doesn't hang. So, its
> > not clear to me whether there's a vim source bug, a compiler bug, or o/s
> > bug.
> >
> > So: is there a configure option to disable HAVE_NANOSLEEP?
> >
> Sigh -- seems that this isn't the whole story. vim no longer hangs, but
> gvim does, even with usleep instead of nanosleep.
> With valgrind+gvim, no valgrind problems but it still hangs.
This points in the direction of a race condition...
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