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Re: Status of revivesa



On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:37:58AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> wrstuden%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> 
> > > - An assertion caused by firefox3 on 4.0 environment I reporeted
> > >   can't be reproducible 100%. (some race condition?)
> > 
> > Yes. I believe the problem is in delivering two or more unblocked upcalls 
> > at once. The second one comes out garbled. Last night, I looked at the 
> > code, and I can't see a substantive difference between the two. I'll try 
> > again tonight. I also have a test case program in mind.
> 
> I'm now trying firefox-2.0.0.17 (Bon Echo) from 4.0/i386 packages.
> It sometimes freezes silently after ~30 minutes browsing,
> but I'm not sure it's revivesa specific.

Firefox 2 freezes all the time on my macppc, running a regular -CURRENT (ie,
no revivesa).  Likely an architecture-specific problem, though (as in,
any architecture that's not i386 or amd64...)

Cheers,
Peter
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