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Re: [PATCH v2] Remove signal handling for nanosleep (bug 16364)
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:22:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Remove signal handling for nanosleep (bug 16364)
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Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> writes:
> That's the hole points of the previous discussion in v1 patch while
> Florian also pointed this racy. He neither I could devise a race-free
> testcase to check for this issue so my questioning was if someone have
> a way to remove the race or if we really should push for this test.
A racy test is as good as a non-existing test. Everyone will ignore it.
Andreas.
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