From debian-devel  Sun Nov 06 20:31:24 2016
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere () hungry ! com>
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2016 20:31:24 +0000
To: debian-devel
Subject: Re: Bug#842796: libc recently more aggressive about pthread locks in stable ?
Message-Id: <2fltwbke4f7.fsf () diskless ! uio ! no>
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[Jeff Epler]
> I believe that similar bugs have been afflicting hurd and kfreebsd
> debian ports for some time.  In retrospect, it's too bad these reports
> weren't given more attention, because it could have made things better
> for Linux platforms as well.  :-/

Yeah, too bad. :/

On the other hand, it make me glad to have yet another example of the
value of the less popular architectures. :)

Does this mean that running the autopkgtest scripts on hurd or kfreebsd
would expose these problems?  Do we have any idea how widespread the
problem is?

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen