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From: Peter Rehley <peter AT rehley DOT net>
Subject: Re: Please try latest snapshot -- pthreads mutex users please note
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:09:21 -0700
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My tests indicated that the changes are working correctly.

Peter

On Jun 30, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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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Enjoy,
Peter
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