On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:56:57AM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > >>>there is some code in FreeDCE which expects to be able to jump out > >>>of a cancellation handler > >> > >>Then FreeDCE should be fixed to be POSIX-compliant, I think. > >>Or is there something subtle going on here? > > > > > > the behaviour of LinuxThreads is different from NPTL. > > > > therefore, given that this cancellation thing matters for dce > > applications (the runtime relies on it being possible) i thought > > you might wish to be aware of this subtle difference in case > > Wine MSRPC or other applications also rely on it. > > > > that's all - nothing more. > > Right. Nothing subtle, then. I guess FreeDCE needs some > work to run on NPTL or other POSIX-compliant threads packages,
*sigh*. yes. depends on your version of POSIX (final or draft 4). loic is working on keeping dcethreads "current", at least. there are approx 350 occurrences of pthread_somethingorother in FreeDCE, so it's not a trivial task, more's the pity. > as it's using Linuxthreads behavior that is an extension of POSIX threads. > (Surely FreeDCE doesn't *need* to longjmp out of a cancellation handler; it's the dcethreads (posix draft 4) emulation library that handles that, from what i can gather. > it can't be that hard to fix.) Thanks for the heads up. ack.
