Couple issues tunneling into my AIX/HPUX boxes. ppc64 RHEL 5 linux looks good,
at least, passes all tests, sysv sem timed locks discovered. Hopefully
able to test
in the next day or few.

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 1:43 PM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
> With patches now accounted for I can pre-test and report back today on AIX,
> HPUX and propose a fix to silence the win32 32 -> 16 bit warnings (after
> division is done.)
>
> But my inclination is to defer this new feature to a later 1.7+2.0 release.
> Shipping a feature that devs would expect to need when it may be largely
> unavailable seems a disservice to our end users and these devs.
>
>
>
> On Apr 19, 2017 10:45, "Nick Kew" <n...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:16:37 +0200
>> Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > Unfortunately I was not (yet) able to find out, whether there's a
>> > > patch for Bug 6738798 available on Solaris 10, or whether we would
>> > > break Solaris 10.
>> >
>> > Maybe we need to "#define APR_USE_PROC_PTHREAD_MUTEX_COND 0" for
>> > Solaris 10, and fall back to the generic implementation (spinning
>> > sleep)...
>>
>> I've just (r1791932) made timedlocks a config option on unix-family.
>> Defaults to on, but any users getting bitten by it can now use
>> --disable-timedlocks and the timedlock function return APR_ENOTIMPL
>> (as per earlier discussion, after being bitten by Mac but before
>> Solaris versions joined the awkward squad).
>>
>> Given that two mainstream platforms have bitten us on this in the
>> pre-release cycle, it would seem very high risk now to release
>> without such a workaround.  We can request that anyone who finds
>> themselves having to use it report back to us!
>>
>> --
>> Nick Kew

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