Re: wrong parsing to /proc/self/status causes wrong out-of-range errors

[Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>]

Hi Lee.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:14:34PM -0400, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 08:55 -0500, Cliff Wickman wrote:
> > Andi, Lee and all,
> > We have no established release schedule that I'm aware of.
> > 2.0.2 was Aug08
> > There are about 14 fixes accumulated in 2.0.3 rc1 and rc2.  But only
> > a trickle of small changes lately.
> > I'm inclined to announce it as 2.0.3, if you have used it and are
> > satisfied that it's stable.
> 
> Hi, Cliff:
> 
> I have been using/testing 2.0.3-rc2 for a while.  I have accumulated a
> couple of patches which I've been remiss for not posting.  They sort of
> got pushed way down on my stack.  One involves cleaning up what I
> perceived as bitmap leaks, but included some unrelated cleanup.  I've
> meant to separate them out.  One actually addresses the Cpus_allowed
> parsing that Brice fixed.  
> 
> A while ago I sent a copy to Kornilios Kourtis [off list] to see if he
> was interested in moving them.  He did make some mods, which I've been
> too distracted to check out :(, but KK was also too busy to dedicate
> much time.  I can try to spend some time tomorrow reviewing Kornilios'
> version and my other patches [nothing serious, as I recall], and send
> them on--before the weekend, I would hope.  
> 
> Or I could send you what I have as a heads up and work with you to
> finish testing/cleanup/...  Let me know your preference.
> 
> Apologies for letting this slide,
> Lee

I'm not in any hurry release 2.0.3.  It just looked like it was stable.

But if you and Kornilios and others are working on some issues that's
fine.   Finish them when you can.

-Cliff
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Cliff Wickman
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