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Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 13:55:12 -0400
From: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>
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Subject: RTLD patch for testing
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Hi,

this is a call for testers. I am looking for people willing 
to test the patch at http://http://people.freebsd.org/~kan/rtld1.diff
on non-i386 architectures. The patch unifies legacy locking code into
a single platform independent implementation using machine/atomic.h
macros. This is done in preparation for a new locking interface in
rtld and in order to simplify the future maintenance.

I believe disasters are highly unlikely, but make sure you have an
old copy of your /usr/libexec/rtld-elf.so.1 available nonetheless.

Large multithreaded applications like mozilla of KDE are of special
interest. Please let me know of any new failures you didn;t see 
before the patch.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Alexander Kabaev