Deadly embrace between pthread_cond_wait and pthread_cond_signal

[Norman Vine]

Norman Vine  wrote:
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>Jason Tishler writes:
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>>How long does it take to run the regression tests (sans test_poll)?
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>A long time :-( < several hours >
>the re, sre and various unicode tests seem to take forever
>I will add a timer to the python regression test to time each
>module tested and post the results.

I tried Rob's proposed  IsBadWritePtr(...) patch 
< see cygwin list [RE:] pthreads works ,sorta  thread >

And running the Python regression suite is an 
ORDER of MAGNITUDE FASTER
with this patch applied :-))

real    7m5.712s
user    2m50.883s
sys     1m15.236s

Cheers

Norman