On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:39 PM, John David Anglin <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The deadlock occurs at the third call to Tcl_MutexLock in NotifierThreadProc > (tclUnixNotfy.c:997). This is in a while(1) loop, so I have to think > the previous call to Tcl_MutexUnlock failed, possibly because of a call > to Tcl_ConditionNotify. You might get a better idea if you run this under strace and look at the futex syscalls being made. You won't see the locks since the fast path is through the light-weight-syscall compare-and-swap, but you will see the unlocks, and you can count them. Cheers, Carlos. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html