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From: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: futex hang with rpm in 2.6.17.1-2174_FC5
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:02:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611270102.50218.vda.linux@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <453A622C.2020401@candelatech.com>

On Saturday 21 October 2006 20:08, Ben Greear wrote:
> >  > or shouldn't rpm notice the previous process is dead and
> >  > clean it up itself?
> >  
> > Sounds sensible to me and you, but in the past sensible ideas and
> > rpm maintainers haven't gone hand in hand.
> >   
> Ahhh :)

Well said. rpm's source tarball size doubles with each release
and it contains such unexpected things as ELF manipulation
library. I have no idea what business rpm can possibly have with
parsing ELF headers.
--
vda

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-27  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-20 18:38 futex hang with rpm in 2.6.17.1-2174_FC5 Ben Greear
2006-10-21  5:24 ` Dave Jones
2006-10-21 17:45   ` Ben Greear
2006-10-21 18:00     ` Dave Jones
2006-10-21 18:08       ` Ben Greear
2006-10-21 21:55         ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-11-27  0:02         ` Denis Vlasenko [this message]

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