On 04/07/2017 03:33 PM, Ruediger Pluem wrote:
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> On 04/07/2017 10:37 AM, Yann Ylavic wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Ruediger Pluem <rpl...@apache.org> wrote:
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>>> On 04/07/2017 02:11 AM, yla...@apache.org wrote:
>>>> Author: ylavic
>>>> Date: Fri Apr 7 00:11:27 2017
>>>> New Revision: 1790490
>>>>
>>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1790490&view=rev
>>>> Log:
>>>> Merge r1790488 from trunk:
>>>>
>>>> locks: follow up to r1667900.
>>>>
>>>> Axe the 'absolute' argument of apr_{thread,proc,global}_mutex_timedlock()
>>>> which was confusing, hence 'timeout' is always relative now.
>>>
>>> Hm. Doesn't that violate the APR versioning rules? IMHO you can change an
>>> existing public API only in a major release
>>> aka. 2.0 in our case.
>>
>> Was never released (new to 1.6.x), does the rule apply?
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> IMHO that does not matter. Apps that run with 1.5.x are expected to run with
> 1.6.x. This wouldn't be the case here.
>
Or are apr_{thread,proc,global}_mutex_timedlock() new to APR 1.6 and are not
part of 1.5.x and before?
Regards
Rüdiger
