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Re: [PATCH] Make Wine happy (was Re: struct pthread_functions change breaks Wine)


On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:52:58PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> There is no reason not to put this in.  But Wine is, as I'm sure they're
> aware, being severely unkosher in diddling with this structure itself,
> GLIBC_PRIVATE and all.  There are absolutely zero guarantees about such
> usage not breaking with each and every glibc change.  In this particular
> case, it's easy to avoid breaking Wine, but that is pure luck.  Anyway, I
> would put the change in if it includes comments about why it's being done.
> The log entry could mention something, but more important is that the code
> get comments saying that the layout matters to someone.

Is this better then?

2003-09-10  Jakub Jelinek  <jakub@redhat.com>

	* sysdeps/pthread/pthread-functions.h (struct pthread_functions): Move
	ptr___pthread_cond_timedwait to the end of the structure to avoid
	breaking Wine unnecessarily.

--- libc/linuxthreads/sysdeps/pthread/pthread-functions.h.jj	2003-09-02 03:08:55.000000000 -0400
+++ libc/linuxthreads/sysdeps/pthread/pthread-functions.h	2003-09-10 17:55:06.000000000 -0400
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
 struct fork_block;
 
 /* Data type shared with libc.  The libc uses it to pass on calls to
-   the thread functions.  */
+   the thread functions.  Wine pokes directly into this structure,
+   so if possible avoid breaking it and append new hooks to the end.  */
 struct pthread_functions
 {
   pid_t (*ptr_pthread_fork) (struct fork_block *);
@@ -54,8 +55,6 @@ struct pthread_functions
 				  const pthread_condattr_t *);
   int (*ptr___pthread_cond_signal) (pthread_cond_t *);
   int (*ptr___pthread_cond_wait) (pthread_cond_t *, pthread_mutex_t *);
-  int (*ptr___pthread_cond_timedwait) (pthread_cond_t *, pthread_mutex_t *,
-				       const struct timespec *);
   int (*ptr_pthread_equal) (pthread_t, pthread_t);
   void (*ptr___pthread_exit) (void *);
   int (*ptr_pthread_getschedparam) (pthread_t, int *, struct sched_param *);
@@ -82,6 +81,8 @@ struct pthread_functions
 				struct sigaction *oact);
   int (*ptr_pthread_sigwait) (const sigset_t *set, int *sig);
   int (*ptr_pthread_raise) (int sig);
+  int (*ptr___pthread_cond_timedwait) (pthread_cond_t *, pthread_mutex_t *,
+				       const struct timespec *);
 };
 
 /* Variable in libc.so.  */


	Jakub


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