Re: rw-semaphore regression in 2.4.4-pre4

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:23:37 -0400


Ghadi Shayban wrote:
>
> Processes, most easily mozilla, get stuck in the "D" state in
> 2.4.4-pre4. I don't believe this was fixed in pre2 but now it happens
> again. Also, just a minor error, but 2.4.4-pre4 modules are put in
> the 2.4.3 directory. The version number was probably accidentally left
> the same.

Linus is good about rememeber to change the version these days. This
sounds like a patch/install error on your side...

--- v2.4.3/linux/Makefile Thu Mar 29 20:13:15 2001
+++ linux/Makefile Fri Apr 13 20:26:46 2001
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 4
-SUBLEVEL = 3
-EXTRAVERSION =
+SUBLEVEL = 4
+EXTRAVERSION =-pre4

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