Futex hang when running event loop on a separated thread

[Marc Aymerich]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Marc Aymerich <glicerinu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Zachary Ware
> <zachary.ware+pylist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Marc Aymerich <glicerinu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> still it appears to work only if the main thread is in the foreground
>>> (as of calling Thread() with deamon=True), I don't get why it behaves
>>> differently :( maybe it is waiting for other stuff, but no idea how to
>>> confirm this with strace of other means.. i always see the same
>>> 'futex(0x7f9a70000c10, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 0, NULL'
>>
>> What's your exact version of Python?  asyncio is still evolving
>> rapidly, and may behave differently between patch releases (say,
>> between 3.4.1 and 3.4.3).
>>
>> I have tried out your reproducer with my fix, and I can't provoke a
>> hang using Python 3.4.3 on either OSX or Ubuntu Trusty.  Can you give
>> some more specific directions to reproduce?
>>
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>> Zach
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>
>
> Yep, I'm a bit lost about how fuse implements going into background...
> so the only way I have to reproduce this so far is by using fuse :(


problem solved !
Just found out that threads should be started by fuse.init() in order
to run when fuse is backgrounded.


-- 
Marc