threads/119920: fork broken in libpthread

[Julian Elischer]

Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
>>>> Should the patch be considered for an errata notice for 6.x?  Should 
>>>> we be trying to MFC this to 7.x for inclusion with 7.0 or does it 
>>>> need more time to shake out and should potentially be a 7.0 errata 
>>>> notice or just appear in 7.1?
>>>
>>> yes and yes and no
>>
>> If the fix is going to ship in 7.0 and hasn't yet been MFC'd, that 
>> needs to happen ASAP.  Could someone forward the patch/etc over to re@ 
>> for approval?
>>
>> The procedure for doing an errata patch is basically that whoever is 
>> proposing the errata patch needs to e-mail a patch, or multiple 
>> patches if it's different for different branches, a proposed branch 
>> list, and as much of a completed errata notice template as possible 
>> (impact, etc) to re@ for review. Once re@ is OK that it's ready to go, 
>> it will get sent over to secteam@ to be put into production, binary 
>> updates generated, etc.  If in doubt about which branches, drop e-mail 
>> to secteam@ to ask which are supported, etc.
>>
>> At this point we would probably not advise doing the errata patch 
>> before 7.0 is released, so priority should go to preparing any patches 
>> that need to go out with 7.0.
> 
> Hello?
> 
> Right now this is on re@'s list of "waiting for this to do RC2", which 
> means that the release is holding on the fix.  Please let me know what 
> the plan is so we can either move on with the release without waiting, 
> or have some sort of timeline in mind.  Is this patch believed mature 
> enough to be merged as-is?

the releng 6 and releng 7 versions of this patch are at:
http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/kse-6.diff
and
http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/kse-7.diff

but the one for 7 is just speculative.
I don't have a 7.x system to test.

Landon, what is your test case?





> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
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