[0.23.4 patch] RE: ServiceOwnerChanged wakes up everybody?

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Tue Jun 14 09:57:11 PDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 11:56 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Most of the locking code in 0.23.4 was backported from 0.3x, so any
> locking issues you have with 0.23.4 probably still exist in 0.3x.  (But
> the locking prior to that was so broken I'm surprised it's more reliable
> for you.)

Well, lack of locking can often appear to "work" ;-) while buggy locking
will deadlock or break more obviously.

We should try that helgrind skin for valgrind, valgrind was screwing up
for me a few months ago when I was trying to use this, but maybe it
works now.

Havoc




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