Re: Status of revivesa

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
> 
>    matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
>    >    
>    >    We had accidentally broken libpthread compatibility (after move of
>    > some functionality to librt) in -current. It was noticed 6 months
>    > later, by one developer. So extent of the problem is probably not that
>    > large.
>    > 
>    > 
>    > this is entirely false.
>    > 
>    > there was a PR logged by a user 1-2 weeks afterwards.
>    
>    Perhaps make sure that we are talking about same problem, before saying
> what is true or false? Otherwise, we can both call each other liars. :)
>    
>    Breakage was in January, PR was created in May, thus 5 (sorry, not 6)
> months. Well, maybe somebody noticed it earlier, but I am not aware of any
> earlier PR.
> 
> 
> hmm, i can't find the PR or the original report off hand.
> 
> however, it came about 3 weeks after the GCC update in feb, about
> 1-2 weeks after the pthread_mutex_t change was made.  i remember
> it very well because GCC update was initially blamed.
> 
> ie, a user noticed this problem fairly quickly.

And here we are talking about different problems, cf. PR/38657.

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