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From:
"Ted Unangst" <tedu@tedunangst.com>
Subject:
Re: pthread_rwlock_combo
To:
"Ingo Schwarze" <schwarze@usta.de>
Cc:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Sun, 06 Jul 2025 14:28:41 -0400

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On 2025-07-06, Ingo Schwarze wrote:

> I really don't like that you dropped it.  The end goal is certainly
> to have it, we have the section in libc and most other libraries.
> The content is non-trivial in libpthread in particular since thread
> support was added in a piece-meal manner over many years.  Adding
> such information requires looking at every individual function,
> so there is no great benefit to doing it all at once.  On the other
> hand, researching it is harder in libpthread than elsewhere because
> of how much stuff moved around among various source directories.
> So deleting what has already been researched really does a disservice,
> in particular during a merge, which makes it harder to notice at a
> later time that the work had already been done.

Sorry about that. Wasn't trying to make things harder.

> So, here is a patch to put HISTORY back, sort SEE ALSO, and mop up
> some trailing whitespace.  OK?

Certainly. It was your wording in the first place.