Re: [Freedce-devel] dce-rpc on newer linux distros

[K.R. F. <kr...@cy...>]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> a while back i worked on getting rid of NPTL.  it was quite straightforward .
> 
> however, i discovered fairly quickly that the interrupt-stopping
> (non-cancellation) wrappers were an integral part of the design
> of the reference implementation.
> 
> in other words, i think that if some brave soul wants to try this,
> if you disable exception-handling for the duration of e.g. select
> and all the other functions which used to be NPTL-wrapped, you will
> probably find that TCP/IP miraculously works again.
> 
> the problem is the difference between posix (final) and posix (draft 4)
> semantics on which system calls were cancellable and which were not.
> 
> so, by disabling cancellation-stopping in some strategically critical
> system call - by removing the NPTL wrappers in dcethreads - i've
> completely bolloxed everything up for TCP.

Could you possibly provide a pointer to where you disabled this?

> 
> if someone wants to make some macros / function calls which
> re-enable the exception-cancellation-stopping go for it.

If you could provide a bit more of a nudge I definitely might give it a
shot.

> 
> l.
> 
> 
>> tho...@we... wrote:
>>> I had it running on RHES 3 (useing NPTL) quite a while ago. 
>>> I posted all changes I did, search the archives.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Thomas
>>>
>> I have it running also. However, the tcp protocol seems to be disabled
>> for some reason. Anyone have any idea why that is? Is it intentional or
>> is it a screw-up?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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