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Re: last changes and problems
- To: drepper@cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: last changes and problems
- From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 08:39:03 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: libc-hacker@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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