cvs commit: src/lib/libpthread/thread thr_mutex.c

[Scott Long]

Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 05:03:50AM +0000, Brian Feldman wrote:
> 
>>green       2004-10-31 05:03:50 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    lib/libpthread/thread thr_mutex.c 
>>  Log:
>>  Make pthread_mutex_trylock(3) return EBUSY on failure, as all software
>>  packages expect and seems to be most correct according to the slightly-
>>  ambiguous standards.
>>  
>>  MFC after:              1 month
>>  Corroborated by:        POSIX <http://tinyurl.com/4uvub>
>>  Reviewed by:            silence on threads@
> 
> 
> Software such as mozilla projects (using NSPR) and Java have been
> broken in various ways by this.  We need to try to be more compatible
> with the most popular interpretation of the standards (instead of just
> inventing our own) -- usually we're pretty good about this.
> 

Please define 'broken'?  There are many test suites available for 
pthreads.  How does this affect those test suites, and have you
_directly_ talked with those who run the tests suites?

Scott