abort() calls from messaging code

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Jun 15 16:03:21 UTC 2017


On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 05:50:42PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 08:45:30AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > Arrrgggh. Sorry, this stuff is a black art :-(. Really sorry
> > I didn't catch this in the 1828011317b review.
> 
> That's why we're putting so much effort into tevent_req and hiding
> threads into a very dark corner. You only want to chase this kind of
> problem very, very rarely in small pieces of code :-)

How did you catch it ? Race conditions are a nightmare to
find and I'm interested in learning :-).



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