Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 11/29/2010 02:46 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> My current guess, by the way,
>> is that it's not a bug that can be triggered: it's merely
>> useless code that is harmless and can safely be removed.
>
> I removed it as part of the following series of cleanup
> patches. These are
On 18/05/10 23:36, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 18/05/10 21:02, Rich Jones wrote:
>> Hey guys!
>>
>> Been fighting with batch splitting lately, was wondering if anybody would be
>> interested in having a split -p --parts feature. It would take an integer
>> and try to split the file into that many par
stat 'i\i' shows 'i\\i'.
Backspaces in filenames are doubled.
stat (GNU coreutils) 8.5
Hi Professor Eggert,
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 12/03/10 12:18, Chen Guo wrote:
> Either option (either switch to mutexes everywhere, or have the top-level
> merge go to memory) should work. Perhaps we should try both and benchmark
> them.
Test machine is 4 core
On 12/05/2010 09:16 PM, Chen Guo wrote:
> Before saying anything else, I should note that for mutexes, on 4
> threads 20% of the time there's a segfault on a seemingly innocuous
> line in queue_insert ():
> node->queued = true
It does sound like mutexes are the way to go, and that this bug
needs
