On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 15:56 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Thu 27 Nov 2014 13:49:53 +0100, a écrit :
> As discussed on IRC too, AIUI the record locking patches just get rid > of the whole content that I'm patching. So the rebase should be quite > trivial: just tell git to keep your version. I don't use git. I use released versions and debian+quilt+manual patch management. > > On the other hand, I've been running at least 5 VMs > > with these patches since August without problems. > > But were you running applications which were actually using record > locking? Few applications use locks at all, actually :) Well at lest all applications using whole file locking, such as dpkg runs with the record file locking structures, not using lockf or LOCK_* anymore. > > Of course these patches ar not up to GCS standards, so let's forget > > about the whole issue. I continue to rebase and apply them privately > > for every hurd/libc release to come. > > I'm not sure to understand what you mean here. That I keep the patches for myself of course, and don't publish them.
