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Re: [patch] Fix for bz14333 -- race between atexit() and exit()
On 07/24/2017 04:07 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> Has anyone reviewed this patch in detail yet (including the concurrency
> aspect)? I'm not familiar enough with the exit handler code currently,
> so I don't want to dive into this unless (1) nobody else has done it nor
> plans to do so and (2) we could still get this into the current release.
I have not reviewed this in detail and I don't plan to review it before
2.26 goes out the door since there are other more important blockers to
the release (bug 21298 which I'm still reviewing).
I do not think bug 14333 (this bug) counts as a blocker. We've had this
bug for years, and we've known about it, and lived with it.
I think we can continue to work on this set of patches to meet our
expectations.
Paul, just for reference look at f8bf15febcaf137bbec5a61101e88cd5a9d56ca8
and the amount of comments for what started off as a "simple change" that
was less than a few lines of code originally posted by VMWare :-)
I don't want to scare you, and you need not be held responsible for
documenting the P&C semantics of the code you touch, that's a responsibility
that all of us collectively bear. So I'm happy to help write more of this up,
but I can't do that until August.
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Cheers,
Carlos.