Bug#760427: netdde: gets often stuck using pcnet driver

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Richard Braun, on Thu 04 Sep 2014 02:44:20 +0200, wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 02:26:00AM +0200, Gabriele Giacone wrote:
> > By switching card to e1000, it works fine, no hangs with heavy network
> > traffic so far.
> 
> This is probably just pure luck. There are known issues unrelated to the
> driver in netdde, probably caused by the condition/mutex code which was
> reused from a previous version of libpthread. In particular, see the
> various TODOs and FIXMEs in libddekit [1]. These should probably be
> reworked to use the libpthread facilities directly.

I have done it (to be uploaded soon), but netdde is still getting stuck
under heavy load.

Samuel