Re: libpthread cleanup: L4 port, PowerPC port

2012-08-07 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:17:29 +0200, "Neal H. Walfield" wrote: > At Sat, 4 Aug 2012 15:56:01 +0200, > Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 15:16:22 +0200, "Neal H. Walfield" > > wrote: > > > At Sat, 4 Aug 2012 15:02:46 +0200, > > > Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > > > > > * signal/READM

Re: PTHREAD_CANCEL_HURD

2012-08-07 Thread Richard Braun
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 12:20:09PM -0700, Thomas DiModica wrote: > I was thinking about what Richard Braun said about removing > hurd_thread_cancel. > Attached is an exploration into implementing PTHREAD_CANCEL_HURD as a > cancellation state extension. It compiles, but I haven't tested if the > r

Re: PTHREAD_CANCEL_HURD

2012-08-07 Thread Richard Braun
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 07:07:23PM -0700, Thomas DiModica wrote: > I understand now: we want to immediately dequeue ourselves, even if it means > wasting cycles later by checking to ensure that we were dequeued. The last > thing we want is to return ETIMEDOUT when another thread has intervened, > a