some regression test of kaffe 1.0.6 failed on linux

[Patrick Tullmann]

> After I successfully compiled kaffe 1.0.6 on linux, I tried "make
> check". To my surprise, some of the regression test failed, including
> Preempt.java. That means kaffe 1.0.6 doesn't support thread preemptive
> scheduling, which is an important problem. While kaffe 1.0.5 support it.
> I tried on both linux 2.0.36 and linux 2.2.1. How could this happened?

That is odd.  Which threading system is Kaffe using?  (kaffe -fullversion 
will tell you.)

Both of the relevant ones (unix-pthreads and unix-jthreads) support
preemption.  Perhaps something odd happened, like not finding
SIGTVALRM or something?  What version of Linux (kernel/distro) are you
using?

If you compile and run Preempt.java, what happens?

-Pat

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