Re: GNU/Hurd portability patches

From: Samuel Thibault <samuel(dot)thibault(at)gnu(dot)org>
To: Michael Banck <mbanck(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: GNU/Hurd portability patches
Date: 2026-02-05 08:35:40
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Hello,

Michael Banck, le jeu. 05 févr. 2026 09:27:37 +0100, a ecrit:
> With the glibc patch from [2] applied, I have been running the above SQL
> for 5 million iterations without a hang just now. So those semi-frequent
> hangs on fruitcrow should be fixed now, yay!

Yay!

Thanks for taking the time to get the backtrace that explained it all :)

> > * I see special code paths for threads that were in (its notion of)
> > critical sections, which must be rare, but it looks like that just
> > leave it pending which seems reasonable

That's what was missing in cancellation checks. A very small window, but
still there so happened of course :)

Take the two most tricky things in Unix (signals and thread
cancellation) ; that was deemed to pose very tricky problems :)

Samuel

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