Hi Dave,

On Tuesday 10 September 2013 09:51:43 Dave Festing wrote:
> > All users of Linux-3.5 or later should update, to avoid unpredictable
> > crashes when using threads in their application.
>
> Currently, I am running thttpd, telnet and a PHP script (my application) in
> the background.
>
> Before I change to 3.10 and PTXdist 2013.08.0 I would like to know if doing
> that will possibly solve the following problem:
>
> When I started doing some 1-wire work using USB-based commands talking to a
> ATmega32u4 board I started to get failures.  I have no threads in my
> application.

1) What does "1-wire work" and "USB-based commands" mean? Its unclear for me 
how they correlate to each other.

2) what kind of failures do you see?

> When I kill thttpd and run my application in the foreground I appear to get
> NO failures, but I haven't been testing this "solution" for as long as I
> fought with trying to solve the initial issue :)

Do you have some timing constraints?

> Is this possibly the cache issue mentioned here?

Hard to say without more information about your setup, yet. ;)

Regards,
Juergen

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