Paul Eggert wrote:
> Good eye! Thanks for the bug report and example. I installed
> the following one-byte patch into gnulib; please give it a try.
> It should propagate into coreutils the next time coreutils
> updates from gnulib.
>
> A test case for this would require two file systems, one with
On 12/03/10 02:03, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Would you mind adding a "Bug fixes" entry for this
> in coreutils' NEWS file? It'd be nice to commit that
> along with an update of the gnulib submodule to the latest.
Sure, done, with this notice:
cp -u no longer does unnecessary copying merely becaus
Thanks Jim, that helped a lot.
I'll try out Professor Eggert's suggestion, of switching to mutexes
only at the top level merge. Of the following approaches, which would
you guys consider better practice?
1) void pointer, cast as either mutex or spinlock in lock function
2) union of mutex and spin
