[Cin] Complete system hangs (likely out of memory)

Stefan de Konink stefan at konink.de
Wed Jan 25 10:08:51 CET 2023


On Wednesday, January 25, 2023 10:05:36 AM CET, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
> Just for making things more clear: *I* added this unlock, not because I
> knew what I was doing but simply because yeah, it looked like this place
> might need it.
>
> In theory oicks protects shared resources, so one thread may leave
> object/variable around without worry another thread scheduled by kernel
> will overwrite it.
>
> But I do not know enough of details for carelessly altering locking like I
> did. So, Phyllis removed this line on my request, because, I reiterate, I
> put it there literally on a whim.

I think you did fix a bug at this place, and I wonder how total lock would 
get unlocked (other than maybe time out?).

-- 
Stefan


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