Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-apr-cvs-archive@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 76335 invoked by uid 500); 5 Apr 2002 13:25:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cvs-help@apr.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Reply-To: dev@apr.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list cvs@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 76314 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2002 13:25:40 -0000 From: Jim Jagielski Message-Id: <200204051325.IAA13081@devsys.jaguNET.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: apr/locks/unix crossproc.c locks.c proc_mutex.c To: trawick@attglobal.net (Jeff Trawick) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:25:32 -0500 (EST) Cc: jim@jaguNET.com, dev@apr.apache.org, apr-cvs@apache.org Reply-To: jim@jaguNET.com In-Reply-To: from "Jeff Trawick" at Apr 04, 2002 06:42:43 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Jeff Trawick wrote: > > Also, we don't know how these things work in practice. What if (wild > hypothesis) Solaris has it but the default kernel config allows only a > handful of them? Then we start getting PRs from a bunch of the people > who did --disable-threads on Solaris (and therefore aren't using > pthread mutexes) and don't understand that "Out of space on device" > means their system isn't configured for enough posix sems? > You mean like the pthreads stuff :) Certainly, this is what test releases are for? If we need to adjust, we adjust. At least with Posix sems where they are, we find out sooner rather than later :) -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] jim@jaguNET.com [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both and deserve neither" - T.Jefferson