On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Ruediger Pluem <rpl...@apache.org> wrote:
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> On 04/07/2017 03:33 PM, Ruediger Pluem wrote:
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>> On 04/07/2017 10:37 AM, Yann Ylavic wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Ruediger Pluem <rpl...@apache.org> wrote:
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>>>> On 04/07/2017 02:11 AM, yla...@apache.org wrote:
>>>>> Author: ylavic
>>>>> Date: Fri Apr  7 00:11:27 2017
>>>>> New Revision: 1790490
>>>>>
>>>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1790490&view=rev
>>>>> Log:
>>>>> Merge r1790488 from trunk:
>>>>>
>>>>> locks: follow up to r1667900.
>>>>>
>>>>> Axe the 'absolute' argument of apr_{thread,proc,global}_mutex_timedlock()
>>>>> which was confusing, hence 'timeout' is always relative now.
>>>>
>>>> Hm. Doesn't that violate the APR versioning rules? IMHO you can change an 
>>>> existing public API only in a major release
>>>> aka. 2.0 in our case.
>>>
>>> Was never released (new to 1.6.x), does the rule apply?
>>>
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>> IMHO that does not matter. Apps that run with 1.5.x are expected to run with 
>> 1.6.x. This wouldn't be the case here.
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> Or are apr_{thread,proc,global}_mutex_timedlock() new to APR 1.6 and are not 
> part of 1.5.x and before?

Yes that's the case (new to 1.6, not in 1.5), so no possible
regression but for the braves running 1.6.x :)


Regards,
Yann.

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