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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:56:18 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: Sebastian Kemper <sebastian_ml@....net>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Robust shared mutexes?

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 11:51:05PM +0100, Sebastian Kemper wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 05:24:43PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 10:49:44PM +0100, Sebastian Kemper wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > I'm cross-compiling for OpenWRT/LEDE and have this variable
> > > apr_cv_mutex_robust_shared. Should I set it to yes or no with musl? I've
> > > searched around but found conflicting infos. One post said there's no
> > > shared mutex support in musl
> > 
> > Do you have a link for that? If there's incorrect information I'd like
> > to reply and see if it can be corrected.
> 
> Hello Rich,
> 
> Thank you very much for the reply!
> 
> I looked for the link and it turns out it was an error on my part. The
> post wasn't referring to robust shared mutexes. It was regarding process
> shared mutexes
> 
> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2016-March/119214.html
> 
> It says musl doesn't have process shared mutexes so one should set
> apr_cv_process_shared_works=no. I take it that is correct?

No, it's incorrect and I have no idea where that idea came from. I'll
ask Khem.

Rich

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