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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 14:28:51 -0700
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Yeah, I tried the June 30th snapshot.
On Jul 1, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:09:21PM -0700, Peter Rehley wrote:
>> My tests indicated that the changes are working correctly.
>
> You did try the snapshot, right?  I neglected to mention that I had to
> make some corresponding changes to the DLL beyond the below changes.
> I don't know exactly when I did that.  I made the below changes on 6/9
> but I made more changes on 6/11.  So, any snapshot since that time
> would have these changes.
>
>> 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.
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Enjoy,
Peter
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