On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:35:59AM +0000, Kailash Sethuraman wrote:
> Hi,
> Gmail has been acting up, I couldnt send the mail I wanted to
> yesterday, anyway there was a big commit yesterday. I actually had
> work that overlapped with Peter's previous commit, hence had to merge
> them and ensure the commit went right.

How'd that happen?  It's always a good idea to start the day by doing an
update and checkin when you finish for the day.  That way, nobody does
any double work.  That's just a waste of resources, IMHO.

> Vg still does not compile, but we are getting there, *again* sigh. I
> think that we need a different approach to commits.

Perhaps that's a good idea.

> I propose that any further changes to valgrind, by us should be encapsulated 
> in
> /* vg4nbsd */
> /* !vg4nbsd */ comments.
> We may work on arch indep things, so VGO_netbsdelf2 ifdefs may always
> not indicate where our changes are. This makes us clear when we have
> changed logic.
> Lets do this going forward?

Is this really necessary?  We should let our tools do this for us.  For
example, we could tag (copy to /tags) after we finish synching with a
version of Valgrind main code.  Then we can simply do svn diff on the
trunk and the tag to see what has changed in between.

What are your thoughts on this?

> Peter I have answered your question about do_pipe_inner in the code.
> sys_pipe's semantics differ on linux and netbsd, do_pipe_inner is a
> stub to convert the semantics back and forth. Instead of having
> VG_(pipe) take different arguments and littering code all over.
> I might have based it on netbsd's linux emu implementation. I forget if I did.

Aha, I see.

> Is it possible to get svn to write to our ML. Anyone done this before?

It's possible alright, just like with CVS.  Valgrind does this too, right?
I've never done it though, so I wouldn't know where to begin.

Regards,
Peter
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