[M3commit] [M3devel] CVS Update: cm3

[Tony Hosking]

What clients of waitpid actually care about the status bits?

On 12 Jan 2009, at 18:07, Tony Hosking wrote:

> PS What is the name ThreadPScheduler supposed to connote?
>
> On 12 Jan 2009, at 17:44, Jay wrote:
>
>> I basically agree here.
>> I view thread.quake as temporary.
>> Once m3core (that you bootstrap from) has  
>> SchedulerPosix.DoesWaitPidYield, sysutils can use it itself.
>>   Or some other fix involving sysutils not knowing this (it sounds  
>> like you an easy one that I missed).
>>
>> And then the code that is generated when building m3core can be the  
>> exact checked in code, was my intention.
>>
>> I guess what I could/should have done is just put in  
>> SchedulerPosix.DoesWaitYield, wait some amount of time, and then  
>> move sysutils over it, not fix sysutils asap.
>>
>> I can go ahead and do that now -- "fix" m3core, re-"break" (slow  
>> down) sysutils, and then at whatever time, have sysutils use the  
>> new function.
>>
>> I had noticed cygwin builds seeming to take way way longer than I  
>> remember, like >12 hours instead of <1hour. I didn't track down if  
>> this is the cause.
>>
>>  - Jay
>>
>> > From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
>> > To: jkrell at elego.de
>> > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:18:29 +1100
>> > CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com; m3commit at elegosoft.com
>> > Subject: Re: [M3devel] [M3commit] CVS Update: cm3
>> >
>> > I really hate the idea that thread.quake exists.
>> >
>> > Screw sysutils working against old m3core versions. sysutils doing
>> > thread-related scheduling is a big hack, and should be killed now
>> > before it infects others. I don't want to see thread-dependent code
>> > outside of m3core. We really need to come to consensus on this  
>> before
>> > you do more damage to the core thread libraries.
>> >
>> > I feel strongly about this!
>> >
>> > -- Tony
>> >
>>
>

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