Hi! [Adding back the lists, where the message was meant to be sent.] On Tue, 29 May 2012 15:02:58 -0700 (PDT), Thomas Thomas <ricinwich@yahoo.com> wrote: > I tried to send this to debian-hurd@lists.debian.com, but it was either > rejected or deleted for being in the wrong place. This is the cthreads > to pthreads patch for hurd-20120520-1 source in Debian. It also patches > ext2fs large stores, libddekit: all of the patches and extensions to > the base that Debian uses. I don't know how well libddekit works: I > don't know of a way to test it myself. I believe that I have a system > that runs using pthreads and not cthreads. It can always use more > testing, though. I'm assuming that the patch was too big, and (silently?) got discarded by the list software. Question: Are you familiar with Git? It'd probably be best to have the patch in a Git branch. > I have a question about what to do with hurd_condition_wait. I am > essentially using code that Vicente wrote ten years ago. Will this > function eventually be absorbed into pthreads, or will it be put in > some hurd-specific library? It is not a good thing to depend on code > that no one wants to maintain. If I understood the cancellation issue > better, I could try to remove it as I did with condition_implies. I can't comment on that off-hand, but yes, a proper solution will be needed and will be found. Grüße, Thomas
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