Description of Problem: From the thread "Fix fflush starvation [#57014]" on ecc-target-changes: > But I don't see how your change manages this at all. It seems to me > that if you enter this [loop] with some other thread holding the lock, > you'll try once and fail and then immediately just do the > lock-with-wait. Or, am I missing something? The idea was that you may go enter this loop with a stream already locked, and someone else may do the same, resulting in a potential deadlock. However, I've just noticed that this is a difference between my[1] code and the pthread code. In my code Cyg_StdioStream::refill_read_buffer will already have flushed the stream, whereas in the pthread code, the code in question deals with all the streams (including the one already locked). I'll open a bugzilla bug, as I'm not sure exactly what would happen with !CYGSEM_LIBC_STDIO_WANT_BUFFERED_IO. Right now it would break, but flushing should be mostly a nop anyway. At the very least, flush_output_unlocked should call cyg_stdio_flush in that case which it doesn't.
This bug has moved to http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57140