[Ecls-list] Hanging on quit

[Mark Cox]

Hi Juanjo,

On 23/07/2012, at 7:01 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Mark Cox <markcox80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having a problem where the ecl process enters the sleeping state upon exiting. It does not do it every time.
> 
> As explained on a separate email this is due to a race condition in the garbage collector. Unfortunately I do not know any fix yet, but a workaround is to wait a brief time after signaling all threads to quit. I implemented this in ECL tonight. Hopefully the BDW-GC developers will come up with a better solution.

Thank you. I have not encountered a hung process in 300 attempts.

Thanks
Mark

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