Re: [msysGit] [PATCH] git grep: be careful to use mutices only when they are initialized

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

Rather nasty things happen when a mutex is not initialized but locked
nevertheless. Now, when we're not running in a threaded manner, the mutex
is not initialized, which is correct. But then we went and used the mutex
anyway, which -- at least on Windows -- leads to a hard crash (ordinarily
it would be called a segmentation fault, but in Windows speak it is an
access violation).

This problem was identified by our faithful tests when run in the msysGit
environment.

May I ask which test are you talking about specifically?

I ask as I'm curious how this is triggered; git-grep works fine for me
so far (1.7.6.msysgit.0.584.g2cbf)

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan