Forum: Ruby-core [Bug #2739] ruby 1.8.7 built with pthreads hangs under some circumstances

Issue #2739 has been updated by Motohiro KOSAKI.


Hm

I think child process doesn't need to call rb_thread_stop_timer().
Can you please try following patch?


diff --git a/eval.c b/eval.c
index 55dbb8c..31e6a33 100644
--- a/eval.c
+++ b/eval.c
@@ -12343,7 +12343,6 @@ rb_thread_start_timer()
     safe_mutex_lock(&time_thread.lock);
     if (pthread_create(&time_thread.thread, 0, thread_timer, args) == 
0) {
        thread_init = 1;
-       pthread_atfork(0, 0, rb_thread_stop_timer);
        pthread_cond_wait(&start, &time_thread.lock);
     }
     pthread_cleanup_pop(1);
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