On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org>
wrote:
> Brent W. Baccala, on Thu 03 Nov 2016 14:12:41 -1000, wrote:
> > I suspect that this ultimately affects just about every program on a
> > Hurd system.
>
> Sure, it's used internally by glibc. But see the commit I made to
> gnumach: that makes gnumach return an error. glibc thus doesn't actually
> wait, just spinlock, i.e. behave correctly, just not so efficiently.
>
I see... so there must be fallback code (option 2 on my list); I just
haven't found it.
Where is KERN_FAILURE handled in user space?
agape
brent
