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In article <20030628220022.QXMV3199.pop016.verizon.net@kokeb.ambesa.net>,
Mike Makonnen  <mtm@identd.net> wrote:
> David's signal changes broke libthr. This is not his fault. The
> original implementation of sigtimedwait was broken and jdp (John
> Polstra) had worked up patches to fix it, but David beat him to it
> :-).

Well, it would have been nice if David had done a findgrep over the
source tree to see if any existing code relied on the broken semantics
of the original sigtimedwait implementation.

> Libthr depended on the old "broken" semantics of sigtimedwait, so
> any applications using libthr will be broken untill jdp commits the
> second part of his patch.

OK, I'm working on it ...

John
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  John Polstra
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