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

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green at FreeBSD.org> [041030 22:06] 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.

Good catch... it could have just been an oversight though. :)

We need a "configure" like regression suite for pthreads[*].

[*] and a ton of other stuff. :)

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