On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:17:54PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 18:54 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > It's rather too complex to explain the change here, so I suggest > > you go and read these first: > > > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/184205 > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/184209 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747377#c22 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747377#c24 > > > > Now, I'm _not_ saying that the glibc change is wrong. In fact, it > > enables extra gcc optimizations, which is great. But in this case it > > looks like we're going to have to review all use of thread mutexes in > > the whole of Fedora. Maybe not the kind of thing we had in mind for > > Fedora 16 at this point. > > > > I think it's great that Thomas Rast, Jim Meyering, and Jakub Jelinek > > found the problem after probably a couple of man-days of effort, but > > really development and bug fixing like this belongs in Rawhide. > > Well, -13 is what we currently have in stable, and we're past freeze. Doh. > So unless this isn't broken in -13, to make sure this only 'nearly' > gets pushed into F16, we're going to need a non-broken -14 and that > bug is going to need to be proposed as a blocker or NTH. My non-expert advice would be that this should be a blocker. It would be better if experts in POSIX arcana could weigh in on this subject though. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
