Discussing blockers for glibc 2.34 release (50 days to ABI freeze).

[H.J. Lu]

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 8:05 PM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
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> In glibc 2.34 I would like to see the the following merged/complete/fixed:
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> (1) libpthread to libc merge.
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> (2) 64-bit time_t interface changes, but not a solution to utmp (which can happen later).
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> (3) pthread_cond_signal failed to wake up pthread_cond_wait due to a bug in undoing stealing
>     https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25847
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> (4) C.UTF-8 (later speed fixes optional)
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> My list is ambitious.
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> For (1) I'm trying to reivew the residual of Florian's patches at the end of each week.
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> When (1) is done I want to switch to reviewing Adhemerval's set of patches for (2).
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> I am prioritizing (1) and (2) over (3) and (4).
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> I'm hoping that Tulio might have time to review the recent suggestions in (3) and harmonize
> some kind of solution.
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> I think (4) is almost complete thanks to Florian's review, after which we might be
> able to implement some shortcuts to speed this up and minimize the required data.
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> What else should be on this list?
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I'd like to add the internal clone wrapper for clone, clone2, clone3.

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H.J.