cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/alpha/osf1 osf1_signal.c src/sys/amd64/amd64 machdep.c src/sys/compat/linprocfs linprocfs.c src/sys/compat/svr4 svr4_filio.c svr4_misc.c src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c ...

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:38:36PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:42:08AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:36:02PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>
> >>> FreeBSD src repository
> >>>
> >>> Modified files:
> >>
> >>..list of 32 changed files..
> >>
> >>
> >>> Log:
> >>> - Merge struct procsig with struct sigacts.
> >>> - Move struct sigacts out of the u-area and malloc() it using the
> >>>   M_SUBPROC malloc bucket.
> >>> - Add a small sigacts_*() API for managing sigacts structures: 
> >>> sigacts_alloc(),
> >>>   sigacts_free(), sigacts_copy(), sigacts_share(), and sigacts_shared().
> >>> - Remove the p_sigignore, p_sigacts, and p_sigcatch macros.
> >>> - Add a mutex to struct sigacts that protects all the members of the 
> >>> struct.
> >>> - Add sigacts locking.
> >>> - Remove Giant from nosys(), kill(), killpg(), and kern_sigaction() now
> >>>   that sigacts is locked.
> >>> - Several in-kernel functions such as psignal(), tdsignal(), 
> >>> trapsignal(),
> >>>   and thread_stopped() are now MP safe.
> >>
> >>Should we *really* be making large kernel changes like this during a
> >>release cycle??
> >
> >
> >Can I second that? I've been trying to get a <censored> Alpha buildrelease
> >done over the last 3 days or so, but I can't if things keep falling apart.
> >
> ><SIGH>
> >
> >Wilko
> 
> Yeah, I appreciate the work you're putting into this.  Mistakes do
> happen, and there is no need to beat John up over this.  There are

I'm not, no worries. It is just quite frustrating to see the build fail
all the time. Specifically because they take so long to run on Alpha/5.x

> still other problems with alpha that have nothing to do with this
> commit.

Probably. 

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