Fix #807: recv wait can deadlock on an application thread #808
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This is a fix for #807 : recv wait can deadlock on an application thread.
See the issue description for a discussion of the root cause.
The proposed fix here operates by introducing a thread-local variable,
event_count_last_seen
. After entering the mutex, which ensures a stable reading ofcore->event_count
, the thread enters the wait forevent_cond
only ifcore->event_count
is equal toevent_count_last_seen
. In this way, we can guarantee that we won't begin waiting onevent_cond
at a time when the event we need has already been broadcast, which would produce the deadlock.