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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:46:56 -0600
From: Martin Sebor <sebor@roguewave.com>
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Travis Vitek wrote:
> 
> 
> Martin Sebor wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> I wonder if this might be the cause of the problem:
>>    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=576787
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> (Farid, the ChangeLog has your name on it even though the change
>> itself was mine. Let it be a reminder to you to give blame where
>> blame is due :)
>>
> 
> Are you sure? I specifically remember Farid and I trying to convince you
> that it needed to be a class guard instead of a static guard. The
> conversation is archived at
> http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=12680046.

That's right, this one is your guys' fault! ;-)

I was talking about the other change which I'm to blame for:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=588734

Farid was just nice enough to merge it to trunk for me and
in the process replaced my name in the ChangeLog with mine:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=590124

> 
> It is likely that is actually the problem. As Farid and I agreed, the
> functions __rw_manage_cat_data, catopen, catclose, catgets need to use the
> same lock. Looks like we need to add a scope to isolate the guard so that
> the lock is released before the _RWSTD_REQUIRES().

Something like that. Btw., the deadlock problem here has been
an issue before -- see (Rogue Wave only):
http://insight.roguewave.com/onyxinsight/qa/qa30046.htm

Martin