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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:32:13 -0600
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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To: Joris van der Sande <info AT pulserate DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Hyperthreading problem: remote access
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Joris van der Sande wrote:

> Larry Hall wrote:
> > Chris has already answered that question earlier in
> > the discussion.  He needs physical access to the
> > machine to resolve this problem.  Remote access isn't
> > enough.
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but I read the archives back to
> 1 jan 2004 but found no explanation why remote access
> doesn't help the developers to track down the problem.
> Could someone please point me to the relevant postings?
>
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00521.html

Specifically, cgf wrote:

>Fixing this problem will be difficult.  Dealing with race conditions
>like this always is difficult.  I don't want to do this over the
>internet.  It would be too painful and there is no guarantee that I
>could even do it at all.  It could involve machine reboots (I just had
>to do one of these yesterday while debugging a non-thread race
>condition).

Mostly, this is a case of a volunteer not wanting to deal with that sort
of hassle.  YMMV.

-- 
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...

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