last changes and problems

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>]

Hi,

I think I've checked in all the changes I got.  If you find something
missing please resubmit the patch.

I have not addressed the chown stuff.  I leave this completely to the
port maintains.  I.e., Andreas has to decide for m68k, Richard/Dave
for SPARC, Richard(again) for Alpha, Geoff for PPC and Philip for ARM.
I won't do anything if they don't agree and I urge the Debian people
again to not use any patch which leads to incompatible libraries.

I checked in today a bit more character set stuff.  The important
thing is ISO-8859-15.  If somebody asks you now whether Linux/Hurd is
ready for the European Common Currency say: yes.  This charset
contains the Euro symbol.


And now a problem.  Since I have the SMP machine in my office I found
occsionally problems with ex3 and ex6 in the LinuxThreads test.  The
programs simply don't terminate occsionally.  With my new home machine
I see the same but much more frequently.  I guess you need a fast SMP
machine to see the problem (which of course would mean we have a race
somewhere).  I think HJ has 2x 180MHz PPro (right?) and this is
probably not fast enough.  At least I haven't heard any complains from
him.

I'll investigate this bug since it might also be the reason for some
of the vague thread-related bug reports I got over time.

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