Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/05/21:37:14
Hi Chris,
I've done a clean install of cygwin with dll 1.5.18 and also tried
snapshots from 2nd, 4th and 5th. Unfortunetly issues relating to
threading and memory leaks as described in the following post - still
exists:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg00186.html
Regards
Arash Partow
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>>We're coming close to a 1.5.18 release. Please try the latest snapshot
>>at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ and help verify that there are no
>>regresions against 1.5.17.
>>
>>I'm particularly interested in hearing if the changes made (at users's
>>requests) to the default mutex handling in pthread.h are working
>>correctly. Specifically, does this:
>>
>>Index: include/pthread.h
>>===================================================================
>>RCS file: /cvs/uberbaum/winsup/cygwin/include/pthread.h,v
>>retrieving revision 1.21
>>retrieving revision 1.23
>>diff -u -d -1 -r1.21 -r1.23
>>--- include/pthread.h 2 May 2005 03:50:09 -0000 1.21
>>+++ include/pthread.h 11 Jun 2005 04:56:36 -0000 1.23
>>@@ -55,3 +55,3 @@
>> #define PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL 2
>>-#define PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK
>>+#define PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL
>> /* this should be too low to ever be a valid address */
>>
>>do what was requested? This simple change required a lot of changes in
>>the cygwin test suite so I'm not entirely convinced that it was a good
>>thing yet.
>>
>>cgf
>>
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