Re: kernel bug: futex_wait hang

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 15:30 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 04:48 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > > I argued for fixing Glibc on the grounds that the changed kernel
> > > behaviour, or more exactly having Glibc depend on it, loses a certain
> > > semantic property useful for unusual operations on multiple futexes at
> > > the same time.  But I appear to have lost the argument, and Jakub's
> > > latest patch does clean up some cruft quite nicely, with no expected
> > > performance hit.
> > 
> > A glibc fix will take forever to get to users compared to a kernel fix.
> 
> Interesting perspective.  On my systems Glibc is upgraded more often
> than the kernel.
> 

Blame the Debian maintainers.  This bug, reported August 2004, is still
unfixed even in unstable!!!

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=266507

Apparently they think marking a bug "fixed upstream" does something to
solve the problem.

Lee

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