From: Eric Wong Date: 2018-06-29T18:51:55+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:87696] Re: [Ruby trunk Bug#14867] Process.wait can wait for MJIT compiler process eregontp@gmail.com wrote: > normalperson (Eric Wong) wrote: > > eregontp@gmail.com wrote: > > > Would it be simpler to track a set of pids created by MJIT, ignore those in waitpid() and synchronize around both creating GCC processes and when checking the result of waitpid()? > > > > Not possible, if there's a thread running in waitpid(-1, 0), > > it can steal the result of waitpid(mjit_used_by_pid). > > Thank you for the reply. > I am not sure to understand why it is not possible, could you elaborate a bit more? > Could the thread running waitpid(-1, 0) then pass that wait result to the MJIT thread, and retry waitpid(-1, 0) in such a case? > (with careful synchronization as PIDs can be reused, to ensure to correctly classify as MJIT/non-MJIT pid) I don't think that synchronization is possible; or it'd be far more complex than it is now. Calling waitpid to put a thread to sleep can't atomically release a mutex like pthread_cond_wait can, and potentially sleeping on two different non-FD objects is deadlock-prone. Right now, any sleeping is done with cond_wait in the Ruby or MJIT thread. The timer thread has no changes in the way it sleeps, as it only does waitpid with WNOHANG If SIGCHLD exists but it's reliability is a problem on your platform, perhaps try the polling patch I proposed at [ruby-core:87682] Unsubscribe: