Re: spin gsync patch

2016-11-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, on Tue 01 Nov 2016 16:19:19 +0100, wrote: > I have now rebuilt gcc-2.24-6 without hurd-i386/tg-libpthread-gsync-spin.diff > and do not experience any filesystem corruptions when sync is issued for the > patch target in gcc-6. Ok, so that confirms that it's the culprit. > I'll rebu

Re: spin gsync patch

2016-11-01 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2016-11-01 at 15:17 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > So Svante seems to have issues with the upcoming libc 2.24-6, and we're > suspecting the gsync-spin patch as potential culprit.  I have found at > least one issue with it which might be related (though I'm wondering how > it co

Re: rpctrace man page

2016-11-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Brent W. Baccala, on Mon 31 Oct 2016 21:00:53 -1000, wrote: > How about writing a man page? GNU projects usually don't have man pages, but info pages. The doc/hurd.texi indeed doesn't have any part for rpctrace. It should :) I also notice that "info settrans" doesn't seem to bring to th

spin gsync patch

2016-11-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, So Svante seems to have issues with the upcoming libc 2.24-6, and we're suspecting the gsync-spin patch as potential culprit. I have found at least one issue with it which might be related (though I'm wondering how it could). I have attached a fixed version, could you check that it solves

rpctrace man page

2016-11-01 Thread Brent W. Baccala
Hmm... maybe somebody on the list will fix the gsync bug, since I don't know how... ...what can I do in the meantime... How about writing a man page? agape brent rpctrace.1 Description: Binary data