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Boost.org interprocess module
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open_or_create stuck in retry loop indefinitely on macOS aarch64 if retries are enabled #189

Open uptycs-rmack opened 1 year ago

uptycs-rmack commented 1 year ago

Hi, I don't have an isolated repro case at the moment but wanted to share my findings. I have a cross-platform application that worked well with boost 1.66 on Linux x86_64, Linux ppc64le, Linux s390x, macOS x86_64, macOS aarch64 (M1). I upgraded to boost 1.81 and all platforms worked well except macOS aarch64. On that platform open_or_create sticks in a loop and never finishes. The two macOS platforms are compiled as a single universal binary with -arch x86_64 -arch arm64 mode using Apple clang version 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.202). On the same M1 host, running the x86_64 binary under Rosetta emulation works, but the native aarch64 binary hangs. Changing BOOST_INTERPROCESS_MANAGED_OPEN_OR_CREATE_INITIALIZE_MAX_TRIES to 1 to disable the new retry behavior resolves the issue. If max tries is set to 2 or more it hangs. I'm happy to run any tests you recommend but I am unlikely to have time to try to whittle down my application to a self contained repro case for at least a few weeks. Thanks, Ryan

uptycs-rmack commented 1 year ago

A bit more detail here, the reason it was going into the retry loop in the first place appears to be that the fix for GitHub Issue #53 actually broke my application. Rolling back that fix corrected my application's behavior and then whether or not the retry loop got stuck was immaterial.