From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-17 08:39:00
On Nov 17, 2005, at 3:28 AM, Markus Schöpflin wrote:
> Douglas Gregor wrote:
>
>> |thread|
>> test_mutex_lib: tru64cxx71-006
>
> Has anything been changed in the thread library? If no, I strongly
> suspect
> this to be an intermittend failure that will clear up with the next
> run. To
> my knowledge, this is the first time ever this test has failed on this
> platform.
There are some timing-sensitive bits in that test that could trigger
failures if the machine was heavily loaded at the time of execution.
Assuming the problem just goes away, I wouldn't worry about. The test
is probably too strict, and we've seen this kind of problem before with
the thread library.
Doug