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Re: 2.26 release blockers?
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:05:48 -0400
- Subject: Re: 2.26 release blockers?
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On 07/19/2017 08:42 AM, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 16:44 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> Siddhesh,
>>
>> I added 2 release blockers:
>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.26#Release_blockers.3F
>>
>> The /etc/resolv.conf reloading and tcache are two important pieces of
>> work that I'd like to see go out this release.
>>
>> What about everyone else?
>
> I'd like to add the rwlock bug you said you'd review, as it has been
> introduced with the new rwlock added in the last release.
> Second, https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21778 might be
> worth fixing as well this release because it may have been introduced
> when we fixed other robust mutex things in the last release. I'll take
> a closer look at 21778 in the next few days, hopefully.
The rwlock bug is already a blocker and I've been spending time reviewing
the writer/reader phase transitions to prove to myself that we fixed the
bug. I am still actively reviewing and hope to get it done within this
week.
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Cheers,
Carlos.