Re: 0.05 Update [was Re: 0.05]

[Julian Dolby]

 I have been doing further work with Eclipse on Jikes RVM, and I now
believe that patch 728 can probably be discarded.  As for patch 722, on my
RedHat 7.3 and 8.0 systems the man page provided for `man 7 socket' claims
the following:

       SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO
              Specify the sending  or  receiving  timeouts  until
              reporting  an  error.  They are fixed to a protocol
              specific setting in Linux and  cannot  be  read  or
              written.  Their functionality can be emulated using
              alarm(2) or setitimer(2).

 Does `man 7 socket' say something different on your Debian system? That
was why I disabled those options.  As I recall, the code compiled fine
under Linux but threw errors when it was actually used with the timeout
option.  I will try Eclipse on Jikes RVM without this patch, and let you
know what happens.

      -- Julian




                                                                                
                      
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> > 722     ignore supported timeout...     2002-Nov-26 10:10       mark
> > 728     fixes to sorting arrays         2002-Nov-26 11:08       jewel
>
> With no objections these patches will not be integrated before the
> release.

Julian, do you have any more information about these patches? I looked
at the various documentation for SO_TIMEOUT on my Debian system and
didn't see any mention of it. But it also didn't say that it isn't
supported.

Is the patched behaviour necessary for JRVM to work correctly?

I tried to generate a case where the current sorting routines break (by
generating random sequences), but I never once got it to fail. Would it
be difficult for you to repeat the process where you got Eclipse to
fail?

John Leuner



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