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To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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Subject: Re: seg fault in mutex_queue_enq
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From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: 15 Jul 1999 08:19:21 +0200
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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.

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

tg


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