Re: Release status.

[Nat Friedman <nat novell com>]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 14:04, Nat Friedman wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 13:47, Jim McDonald wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 17:37, Nat Friedman wrote:
> > 
> > > Yeah, we have to use System.Threading.Thread.
> >
> > So rather than do any real work I've been mucking around with
> > threading for the past hour or so.  The attached code is probably 80%
> > there, in one-cluepacket-at-a-time situations it behaves, which is
> > good, but it is hitting some problems when I hit query multiple times
> > quickly.  I suspect that there might be a locking issue around
> > backend_workers, although there are also some exceptions that I'm not
> > sure about.
> > 
> >    I won't do anything more on this for the next day or so, so feel
> > free to play around with it and see if you can get it to behave
> > itself.  I'm pretty sure that the core is good and it just needs
> > tidying.
> 
> I've made some minor changes and committed this to CVS.  I think I'm
> seeing the same behavior you describe.  I'll look at it tonight.

A worse problem comes when we cluechain; the new changed cluepacket
causes all the extant threads to be killed, *including its own*.

Nat