Re: Minor usage issues/suggestions

[Mitch Capper]

Yeah I have massive patching for gnulib core (was the concentration of my
efforts) but figured I would ease in with some of the other groups before
the patch suggestions for gnulib.  If I do track the deadlock bug down this
weekend then I will prioritize that.

~mitch (they, them)


On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 10:16 AM Tim Rühsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 6/16/23 17:07, Mitch Capper wrote:
> >  > Personally, I am most concerned about the deadlock. Any help from you
> > as a native Windows user is highly appreciated. There might be an issue
> > in the gnulib thread function wrappers, as I don't get deadlocks on
> Linux.
> >
> > I think I may have found two bugs in the original gnulib poll code that
> > doesn't look like it has been touched much since originally written
> > (15!  years ago).    It would only apply  when called concurrently from
> > different threads, but I hope to get some free time to test further this
> > weekend to confirm.
>
> If you are able to track that issue down, that'll be great !
>
> For anything gnulib related, please contact bug-gnulib@gnu.org.
>  From my experience, the people there are very willing to help.
>
> Regards, Tim
>