On Jan 24, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Peter Kalbus wrote:

> i didn't get it, sorry.
>
> my patch suggested to kick out the check PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT !=  
> PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL. Bu that was only a solution to get it compiled.
>
> from your first answer i think i got, that rpm5 does not care about  
> pthreads. so, i guessed, that the check is not needed. if the ckech  
> is needed, we have to take about what that means for the qnx version.
>
> or do i missed some understanding?
>

No, not you. I've been hacking rpm for nearly 10 years and
there are numerous issues that I (and noone else) knows.

E.g. insque/remque are old VAX instructions. I used in rpmio
only because it made me smile: I used to have a VAX-750
as a personal work station.

Meanwhile, I know from much experience that portability comes from
building on as many platforms as one can stand, QNX included.

So its time to look at rpm from an engineering POV and rewrite
some of the code from a portability POV, pthreads and insque/remque
and d_off included.

Feel free to ignore (or ask) anything I say that doesn't make sense.

I mumble in public a lot ...

73 de Jeff