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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:53:09 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Robust shared mutexes?

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 01:36:50PM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> 
> > On Nov 26, 2016, at 2:56 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> IIRC it was not musl but papering over apr specific issue. I never got time to really dig in
> to root cause it.

Indeed, that's what it seems to be here too. They don't support the
standard API, only some ancient glibc _NP version of it, and they
don't even do anything to handle the case of ownerdied correctly...

Rich

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