Deadlock when calling pthread_key_create in the destructor of a pthread_key

[Brian Inglis]

On 2025-03-23 06:32, Yuyi Wang via Cygwin wrote:
> It's a bug when I tried to run tests of Rust std lib. The standard
> library of Rust tries to create a new pthread_key in the destructor of a
> key created previously. Unfortunately, List::for_each locked the mutex
> before, so List_insert method cannot lock the mutex again.
> 
> I have searched though the POSIX docs and didn't find any words that one
> should not call pthread_key_create in the destructor of a pthread_key. I
> think it should be a bug of cygwin.

Rust does not support Cygwin, and gcc-rs is not yet available on Cygwin: what 
tools and libraries were used to build this library and utilities?

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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