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std: Ignore tests where threads outlive main
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Long ago we discovered that threads which outlive main and then exit while the
rest of the program is exiting causes Windows to hang (#20704). That's what was
happening in this test so let's just not run this test any more.
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alexcrichton committed Jul 22, 2016
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//!
//! Sharing some immutable data between threads:
//!
// Note that we **do not** run these tests here. The windows builders get super
// unhappy of a thread outlives the main thread and then exits at the same time
// (something deadlocks) so we just avoid this entirely by not running these
// tests.
//! ```no_run
//! use std::sync::Arc;
//! use std::thread;
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/// by putting it inside `Mutex` and then share `Mutex` immutably
/// with `Arc<T>` as shown below.
///
/// ```
// See comment at the top of this file for why the test is no_run
/// ```no_run
/// use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
/// use std::thread;
///
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