Re: NPTL patch for linux 2.4.28

2007-03-15 Thread Syed Ahemed
Hello Willy , As an afterthought , You had seamlessly backported 2.4.32 and other patches for me sometime back.Please see article below. http://lwn.net/Articles/169722/ I could provide you with patch rejects and any other help from the 2.4.20-8 patch (rpm2cpio'ed redhat source rpm) to see if we

Re: NPTL patch for linux 2.4.28

2007-03-15 Thread Syed Ahemed
Point taken Sir , Change to 2.6 is inevitable i believe Allthough i shall give the RHEL patch port to 2.4.28 a try over the weekend :-) Thanks a lot Willy and Peter for the help . On 3/15/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:53:06AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra w

Re: NPTL patch for linux 2.4.28

2007-03-15 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:53:06AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 03:14 +0530, Syed Ahemed wrote: > > > Getting RHEL's source ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/21/380 ) was an > > idea i thought about but then a download of the RHEL source from the > > following location was deni

Re: NPTL patch for linux 2.4.28

2007-03-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 03:14 +0530, Syed Ahemed wrote: > Getting RHEL's source ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/21/380 ) was an > idea i thought about but then a download of the RHEL source from the > following location was denied . > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/SRPMS/ a

Re: NPTL patch for linux 2.4.28

2007-03-14 Thread Syed Ahemed
Thanks for the answer , I have already checked the core files size diff which was surprising in a way.The corefile on linux 2.4.28 (which actually shows less information than redhat) is bigger than redhat's 2.4.20-8 system core file. Which brings me to the point that it has to be the generation of

Re: NPTL patch for linux 2.4.28

2007-03-13 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 05:49:22AM +0530, Syed Ahemed wrote: > Hello all. > I have a tricky problem on hand and a straight forward question. > > Tricky problem: > - > While debugging a simple multithreaded application using gdb linux > 2.4.28 , i noticed the thread that has cr

NPTL patch for linux 2.4.28

2007-03-13 Thread Syed Ahemed
Hello all. I have a tricky problem on hand and a straight forward question. Tricky problem: - While debugging a simple multithreaded application using gdb linux 2.4.28 , i noticed the thread that has crashed after sigsegv has complete information on the gdb (both address and