New libpthread patch available.

[Daniel Eischen]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Craig Rodrigues wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 07:29:54PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > 
> >                               libkse       libc_r
> >   ACE 5.3.1 Test               Pass?        Pass?
> >   ------------------------------------------------
> >   Cached_Conn_Test             No           No
> >   Conn_Test                    No           Yes
> >   MT_Reactor_Timer_Test        No           Yes
> >   Malloc_Test                  No           No
> >   Proactor_Test                No           No
> >   Proactor_Timer_Test          No           No
> >   Process_Manager_Test         No           Yes
> >   Process_Strategy_Test        No           Yes
> >   Sigset_Ops_Test              No           No
> >   Thread_Pool_Test             No           Yes
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Would you be interested in using the ACE autobuild perl scripts
> to run the ACE tests?  The results of the tests are formatted
> in a nice HTML format which you can push to a web page.

Sure, I guess so.  Does it come with ACE?

> For example, the build output of my build of ACE+TAO is published here:
> 
> http://www.dist-systems.bbn.com/projects/AIRES/UAV/scoreboard/main/
> 
> If I see your build output, I may be able to help isoloate some
> problems.  The Proactor stuff depends on POSIX AIO + threads, so looking
> too closely at that for KSE may be a waste of time, unless you want to
> look at AIO also.  Sigset depends on proper signals support.

Yeah, I know sigset is broken; our sig*set macros don't check
for invalid signals.  I don't want to mess around with AIO
either.

> The Thread tests are worth paying attention to.  The other thing
> to keep in mind is that some of the ACE tests are very convoluted
> and busted in subtle ways.

Yeah, I remember with earlier versions of ACE, sometimes a
test would fail and other times it would pass.

> If you are interested using the autobuild scripts to publish your
> ACE build output, I can help you with that off the list.

I have all the output; it just not HTML'ized.  Send me what I
need to know off-line.  I'll see if I can get it working.

You can run the tests yourself too, by applying the patch :-)

-- 
Dan Eischen