Re: ready for coreutils-8.13

[Jim Meyering]

[re-adding bug-gnulib to the Cc list]

Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 09:33:04PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Once we have the parse-datetime <date>T<time> patch,
>> I'll be ready to release coreutils-8.13.
>> It's been almost 4 months and over 170 commits since 8.12,
>> so we're overdue.
>>
>> If anyone can point out reported problems that they'd like to see
>> addressed first, please let us know.
>
> I would like you to address sort --parallem problem I recently posted
> on coreutils@ with subject "sort --parallel problem?".

For reference, this is the thread:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.general/1501

Perhaps you didn't see my reply?
The fix would have to be in gnulib,
and to start on that work, it would help
to know precisely what versions of FreeBSD are affected.
More importantly, we'd need code to detect the problem:

    Do you know of a way to test for this bug?
    With that, we should be able to write a gnulib
    module that would transparently replace
    pthread_mutex_init with a version that works around the flaw.

At worst, we could make all FreeBSD-compiled systems use a
pthread_mutex_init wrapper function that does the memset.