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Re: Understanding why getaddrinfo_a and __gai_enqueue_request use recursive locks
On 09/27/2017 12:01 AM, Will Hawkins wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Awesome, thanks. I'll see about posting a patch to do that, and include
>> you in the testing notes. Alternatively you can post the patch yourself
>> and I'll approve it, the changes are mechanical and below the copyright
>> limit, but any future work would require copyright assignment :-)
>
> If you aren't in any hurry to have this added, then I'd like to do it.
> It will give me practice at the submission process while I work on the
> other patch for removing the locks held by the callee function. Just
> let me know whether it would be okay to wait for a few days on this
> patch. If so, I'll take a crack at it! I would certainly not mind you
> moving ahead if you wanted to move quicker. I just thought I'd offer
> to do it for the experience and to keep you from having to use your
> valuable time!
I'm not in a hurry. Please feel free to take your time and post the
patch to libc-alpha when you are ready. I've got a lot of other things
to work on ;-)
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Cheers,
Carlos.