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Russ Cox ade6bc68b0 runtime: crash when func main calls Goexit and all other goroutines exit
This has typically crashed in the past, although usually with
an 'all goroutines are asleep - deadlock!' message that shows
no goroutines (because there aren't any).

Previous discussion at:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/uCT_7WxxopQ/BoSBlLFzUTkJ
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-dev/KUojayEr20I/u4fp_Ej5PdUJ
http://golang.org/issue/7711

There is general agreement that runtime.Goexit terminates the
main goroutine, so that main cannot return, so the program does
not exit.

The interpretation that all other goroutines exiting causes an
exit(0) is relatively new and was not part of those discussions.
That is what this CL changes.

Thankfully, even though the exit(0) has been there for a while,
some other accounting bugs made it very difficult to trigger,
so it is reasonable to replace. In particular, see golang.org/issue/7711#c10
for an examination of the behavior across past releases.

Fixes #7711.

LGTM=iant, r
R=golang-codereviews, iant, dvyukov, r
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/88210044
2014-04-16 13:12:18 -04:00
api api: update next.txt 2014-04-01 13:14:45 -04:00
doc runtime: crash when func main calls Goexit and all other goroutines exit 2014-04-16 13:12:18 -04:00
include liblink: fix incorrect hash collision in lookup 2014-04-16 11:53:14 -04:00
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