Re: kernel panic in gsync_wait

2016-11-03 Thread Brent W. Baccala
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Brent W. Baccala, on Thu 03 Nov 2016 14:12:41 -1000, wrote: > > I suspect that this ultimately affects just about every program on a > > Hurd system. > > Sure, it's used internally by glibc. But see the commit I made to > gnumach: that make

Re: kernel panic in gsync_wait

2016-11-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Brent W. Baccala, on Thu 03 Nov 2016 14:12:41 -1000, wrote: > I suspect that this ultimately affects just about every program on a > Hurd system. Sure, it's used internally by glibc. But see the commit I made to gnumach: that makes gnumach return an error. glibc thus doesn't actually wait, just sp

Re: kernel panic in gsync_wait

2016-11-03 Thread Brent W. Baccala
Hi - I've been trying to figure what to do with the gsync code. It causes undefined behavior and occasional kernel panics when rpctrace is used on gsync_wait and gsync_wake calls. I suspect that this ultimately affects just about every program on a Hurd system. Even if a program doesn't call lo

Re: two more rpctrace patches

2016-11-03 Thread Brent W. Baccala
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Brent W. Baccala wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > >> >> Look at how the commit messages in hurd.git at Savannah (not at >> Debian) are formatted. "make dist" runs gitlog-to-changelog, >> which generates a ChangeLog file from

Re: spin gsync patch

2016-11-03 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2016-11-02 at 09:52 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Tue, 2016-11-01 at 16:20 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > Svante Signell, on Tue 01 Nov 2016 16:19:19 +0100, wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have now rebuilt gcc-2.24-6 without hurd-i386/tg-libpthread-gsync- > > > spin.diff > > > and