| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name
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| 1457.1 |  | SMURF::DENHAM | USG | Thu Dec 19 1996 14:32 | 15 | 
| 1457.2 |  | COL01::LINNARTZ |  | Thu Dec 19 1996 14:47 | 6 | 
| 1457.3 |  | SMURF::DENHAM | USG | Thu Dec 19 1996 18:01 | 5 | 
| 1457.4 | current status? | RHETT::SHEPPARD |  | Thu Feb 13 1997 13:54 | 7 | 
|  |     Hello, 
    Ah, so this will be introduced in V4.0D --
    How about V4.0A and V4.0B ? Are there plans to port it there as well ?
    
    Steve Sheppard
    [email protected]
    MCS / Unix/Ultrix Applications Support Group
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| 1457.5 |  | SMURF::DENHAM | Digital UNIX Kernel | Thu Feb 13 1997 15:28 | 5 | 
|  |     Bug found. It's a little race condition that's in fact harmless.
    The threads code has been modified not to bugcheck when it
    detects the race.
    
    I believe patches for V4.0b and earlier are in process.
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| 1457.6 | A CLD may be on the way... | PEACHS::LAMPERT | Pat Lampert, UNIX  Applications Support,  343-1050 | Fri Mar 07 1997 17:19 | 6 | 
|  | A major customer, NYNEX, is getting very hot about this problem.
Is the 4.0b patch kit with this fix available yet unofficially?
Thanks.
Pat
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| 1457.7 | Problem CLD already. See log# MCPM212N1 | PEACHS::LAMPERT | Pat Lampert, UNIX  Applications Support,  343-1050 | Mon Mar 10 1997 16:20 | 5 | 
|  | The CSC has attached two additional calls to this CLD.
We are awaiting a solution.
Pat Lampert  CSC Atlanta
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| 1457.8 | More CLDs | RHETT::HALETKY |  | Wed Apr 09 1997 13:48 | 10 | 
|  |     THe CSC has attached another call to the CLD. This is a hot issue for a
    Government related job.
    
    Harmless race conditions still cause the system to fail and threads to
    become unuseable.
    
    
    Best regards,
    Ed Haletky
    Digital CSC
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| 1457.9 |  | SMURF::DENHAM | Digital UNIX Kernel | Wed Apr 09 1997 14:39 | 25 | 
|  |     > Harmless race conditions still cause the system to fail and threads to
    > become unuseable.
    
    Hmmm, you're missing a smiley face there.
    
    Since I made the "harmless" comment, I'll respond here because I hate
    having my occasional attempts to be helpful/informative taken and
    repeated back to me completely out of context.
    
    First, your comment seems to imply that the DECthreads folks
    (of which I am not one) have been taking their time getting
    this fix to market. Wrong. I think we can blame the patch
    process for that turnaround issue.
    
    And, of course, you obviously must realize that I never meant to say
    that the bugcheck itself was harmless. Just that the fix was simple to
    make by ignoring the kernel's unhelpful detection of an *otherwise*
    harmless race in the target thread's state.
    
    So next time please keep your unhelpful and uninformative comments
    properly marked with a smiley so that I'll know not to get pissed off
    when I read them....
    
    
    
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| 1457.10 | Patch available for V4.0B | PTHRED::MARYS | Mary Sullivan, DECthreads Engineering | Tue Apr 29 1997 17:17 | 4 | 
|  | The V4.0B patch for this problem is now available.  See note 8.12.
V4.0 and V4.0A kits are expected in the near future.
-Mary S.
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