On 07/03/2013 11:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
[...]
> on earlier license requests, and given that the code is ultimately
> assigned to the FSF, I've gone ahead and made these changes.
I don't know if it is applicable in that specific case, but I had been
explicitly told by Stallman that GNU maintai
On 05/22/2013 11:49 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> I am trying to fix a bug in libvirt where a child process deadlocked
> because it called initgroups() in between fork and exec when the parent
> was multithreaded; it turns out that looking up group membership
> information requires a mutex, but if some o
On 05/29/2013 08:57 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Libvirt would like to use the nproc module to determine the number of
> available processors. This module is currently LGPLv3+, but libvirt
> would require LGPLv2+; it can be argued that since
> sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) is provided by glibc (LGPLv2+
Based on a report by Chandrashekar Shastri, at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979360
Basically, 'GNULIB_SRCDIR=... ./bootstrap --no-git' assumes that
GNULIB_SRCDIR is already complete, and NO git actions should be
directly performed (indirect actions, such as autopoint using
git under
On 07/03/2013 01:46 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/03/2013 05:26 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> So I was reading http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=529
>> which states on Linux that one shouldn't retry close() after EINTR
>> as the descriptor is already closed in that case
>> and another thread cou
On 07/03/2013 05:26 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> So I was reading http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=529
> which states on Linux that one shouldn't retry close() after EINTR
> as the descriptor is already closed in that case
> and another thread could reuse the descriptor
> which a retried close(
So I was reading http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=529
which states on Linux that one shouldn't retry close() after EINTR
as the descriptor is already closed in that case
and another thread could reuse the descriptor
which a retried close() would close erroneously.
That suggests that the foll
