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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 1999 06:03:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        eischen@vigrid.com, tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, kip@lyris.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: seg fault in mutex_queue_enq
Message-ID:  <199907151003.GAA09860@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> writes:
> 
> > There are some bugs in libc_r in stable that have been fixed in
> > -current.  I think the one that you've hit is an uninitialized
> > TAILQ_HEAD in a statically declared mutex (in localtime).  It's
> > probably about time for a MFC.  If someone wants to give me the
> > go-ahead, I can do it...
> 
> Just Do It (tm). At least you could merge the change from 
> 
> [pthread_private.h]
>    1.20 Sun Jun 20 8:28:08 1999 UTC by jb
>    Diffs to 1.19
> In the words of the author:
>    
>   o The polling mechanism for I/O readiness was changed from
>     select() to poll().  In additon, a wrapped version of poll()
>     is now provided.
> [...]
> 
> plus the later formatting fixes.

The libc_r version number was bumped in -current because of the
addition of poll().  Is this allowed in -stable, or something
that waits for a -RELEASE?

> As an aside: some files still lack $Id$'s, and someone should 
> `s/REGENTS/AUTHOR/' in all the copyright statements.

OK.

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com


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