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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: OpenBLAS patch for Cygwin
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 14:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180206142400.GC30794@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a00f8d46-aca4-7eac-22c7-e035e001253d@gmail.com>

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On Feb  6 15:15, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 06/02/2018 13:10, Erik Bray wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Users/maintainers of OpenBLAS on Cygwin may be interested in this
> > patch to improve support for fork():
> > https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/pull/1450
> > 
> > Assuming this looks good (feedback welcome) it might be nice to have
> > this patch included in the next release of the official OpenBLAS
> > package for Cygwin since its incompatibility with fork() has caused
> > problems in the past [1].
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > E
> > 
> > [1] https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22822
> > 
> 
> 
> Noted.
> Do you have a test case to show the failure with current build ?
> 
> Any reason to use OS_CYGWIN_NT and not __CYGWIN__ in the patch ?

Also, it should really use pthread functions and drop the notion that
Cygwin is a Windows target.  Assuming you're running fork from another
thread than the main thread, does it still work with native Windows
threads?


Corinna

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-06 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-06 12:10 Erik Bray
2018-02-06 14:15 ` Marco Atzeri
2018-02-06 14:24   ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2018-02-13 18:23   ` Erik Bray
2018-02-06 18:07 ` Achim Gratz
2018-02-13 18:26   ` Erik Bray

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