Re: [Hamlib-developer] On toward 4.6

[George B. <geo...@gm...>]

Did you push it?  I don't see anything in the repo.

The problem with LOCK() is that it only tries the lock for a single 
caller(depth==1).  Any other value(0,2,3,...) skips the locking call 
altogether.


On 12/1/24 6:01 PM, Black Michael wrote:
> I just put a heavier LOCK() around the send_morse loop.  See if behaves better now.
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> On Sunday, December 1, 2024 at 02:27:03 PM CST, George Baltz <geo...@gm...> wrote:
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> I found one problem last weekend in the CQWW CW contest - CW sending is
> very unreliable (random failures, timeouts, duplicate messages, delays)
> and even lockups requiring restart of the logging program(tlf),  I've
> been looking at the code, and it looks to me like a thread safety
> problem.  Happens only when the app mixes CW sending with polling for
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> I've found ways to make it better, but not sure of a complete fix.
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> On 12/1/24 1:04 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>> Hi All.
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>> Mike has let me know that he is confident that Hamlib is very close to
>> the 4.6 release.  If anyone has any outstanding patches to include, now
>> is the time to submit them!  Anything such as spelling/grammar
>> corrections and documentation improvements are welcome at this time as
>> well.
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>> On my end I've updated my virtual machine to the latest Debian 11 (I like
>> to run a release behind on builds just to be sure things work across at
>> least a few years worth of build tooling) and will be doing some mock
>> releases I can test on Debian 12 and Arch.  Around the end of this week
>> I plan to create the 4.6 branch and make an RC archive that I'll host at
>> the daily snapshots page.
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>> Ordinarily I wouldn't be quite so cautious but since it has been some
>> time since the last release, I'd like to "shake the bushes" so to speak
>> before 4.6.
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>> 73, Nate
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