PR# 17547 Wait condition retry-limit reached

Problem Report Summary

Submitter: saynte

Category: Runtime

Priority: Medium

Date: 2011/05/24

Class: Bug

Severity: Serious

Number: 17547

Release: Build_86545

Confidential: No

Status: Open

Responsible:

Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.205 Safari/534.16

Synopsis: Wait condition retry-limit reached

Description

(Apologies in advance for the not including a reproducable test-case, hopefully it is not needed)

Recently I encountered the following exception while executing some code (a student's code which I do not yet have the time to minimize into a proper test-case):
SCOOP Wait Condition Retry Limit Reached

Upon digging into ISE_SCOOP_MANAGER it looks like when a wait-condition is checked and is false, then `signify_end_of_wait_condition_chain' increments a counter.

This can only continue up to some `max_wait_condition_retry_limit' times, and when it goes over then the `max_wait_condition_retry_limit' will throw an exception.

If I understand this correctly, this would cause all sorts of user-code to fail in lots of cases that the user can't really predict.

To Reproduce

Have a wait-condition that is False for too long.

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