On Thu, Apr 29, 2004, Karl Vogel wrote:

> > Ok, I've looked into DB even deeper and I think the following
> > patch should allow us to be maximum portable and still
> > use as fast as possible mutexes:
> [...]
> > In your case this now selects the ALPHA/gcc-assembly mutex in the hope
> > this works equally well on Tru64, but should be both portable
> > enough and
> > at the same time a lot faster than the fcntl(3) fallback.
> >
> > Sorry, but can you give this a try once again? If this also works,
> > I'll commit this to CVS.
>
> It compiles fine!
>
> > > If this is included then I
> > > guess the change from:
> > >
> > > > > http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=16152
> > >
> > > isn't needed anymore.
> >
> > Yes, but it also will not hurt, I think.
>
> True.. but then again... it's another patch against upstream sources that
> must be maintained.. and in a few months time when it doesn't cleanly apply
> anymore, you will have forgotten why it was needed in the first place..
> meaning you'll spend time trying to find out why :-)

Your wish is my command: http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=16234 ;-)
Thanks for testing.
                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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