ld.so GNU hash support

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 1:13:22 pm Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: uclibc-bounces at uclibc.org
> > [mailto:uclibc-bounces at uclibc.org] On Behalf Of Carmelo AMOROSO
> > Sent: den 3 oktober 2007 09:21
> > To: Nitin Gupta
> > Cc: uclibc; Peter S. Mazinger
> > Subject: Re: ld.so GNU hash support
> >
> > Nitin Gupta wrote:
> > > Thanks Carmelo.
> > >
> > > If next release is going to be out of uClibc-NPTL branch,
> >
> > why are we
> >
> > > still
> > > 1. Not merging this branch with trunk
> > > 2. Committing patches only in trunk
> >
> > good questions.... unfortunately I have not answers
>
> Because sjhill never did what he said he do: merge NPTL branch into trunk.
> The only way NPTL is going into trunk is if someone else does it.

The downside of "I won't do it until I get paid" (or I'm only being paid to do 
XXX) is that after they get paid, where's the incentive to do more?

http://uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2005-May/011659.html
http://uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2006-March/015048.html
http://uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2006-March/015049.html
http://uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2006-April/015103.html

He spelled it out here:

http://purl.rikers.org/%23uclibc/20060325.html.gz

>   04:16.22  dalias  imo nptl is hopelessly broken
>   04:16.27  sjhill  you are an idiot
>   04:16.42  dalias  um, why do you say that?
>   04:16.54  sjhill  the reason the code is not checked in is because i did
> it under contract
>   04:16.59  sjhill  once i get paid, the code gets released 
>   04:17.02  sjhill  which is in two months
>   04:17.12  sjhill  impatient aren't we?

He got paid, he released the code, he moved on to something else he could get 
paid for...

> Carmelo, I suggest you ask Mike for commit access and start merging in your
> NTPL stuff into trunk.

Merging is important work.  It would be nice if somebody would do it.  (I'm 
not enough of a user of threading to merge it.  I don't have good tests for 
all the corner cases, nor do I know what "working well" looks like in this 
context.  I used threading extensively under OS/2 and Java, and a little bit 
under Python, but simply haven't needed it in a C program on Linux.  None of 
the packages I inflict upon embedded systems use threading yet...)

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.