Callback deadlock

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 06/29/2015 03:43 PM, Matthew J. Francis wrote:
> On 29/06/2015 20:18, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>> ah, that's a poorly implemented Implementation::inspect
>> (stoc/source/inspect/introspection.cxx), which locks some m_aMutex first
>> thing and for the duration of the whole function call, and both
>> Pyhton-side threads 1 and 2 are in this function...
>
> When it comes to thousand line functions which feel the need to be
> (heavily) commented in German, I have a very strong urge to 'nicht
> gefingerpoken'.
>
> Unless you feel generous enough to debug further, I'll go with plan B
> and just poll for now rather than risk changing it. While not optimally
> pretty, the objective of the exercise is after all to produce more tests
> and fewer bugs!
>
> (In due course I can commit a test for this bug too)

<https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92440> "Deadlock in 
callback to Python," for the record