* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This fix is mostly from Thomas ..
>
> The problem was that a futex can be called with a zero timeout (0
> seconds, 0 nanoseconds) and it's a valid expired timeout. However, the
> current futex in -rt assumes a zero timeout is an infinite timeout.
>
> Kevin Hilman found this using LTP's nptl01 test case which would soft
> hang occasionally.
>
> The patch reworks do_futex, and futex_wait* so a NULL pointer in the
> timeout position is infinite, and anything else is evaluated as a real
> timeout.
thanks, applied.
Ingo
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