[V3dot10] Patch should be applied: Delay class>>timeoutSemaphore:afterMSecs:

[Norbert Hartl]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:33 -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Norbert Hartl wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 22:35 -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
> >> +1. I'm *amazed* that people running production Seaside installations on 
> >> 3.9 don't get bitten left and right by that bug. It's a complete 
> >> show-stopper.
> >>
> > I think most of them know how to apply a patch ;)
> 
> Do the "standard" Seaside images have that patch? I would've expected an 
> uproar once the first couple of people get bitten by it.
> 
I have 10 images running my webapp and I never discovered any problems
since I applied your patches. Before I had a lot of trouble connecting
to an external postgres database (the pool was troublesome). Most of the
images are running for 2-3 months now.

Norbert
> > But seriously is the mentioned one any other than
> > 
> > SafeDelay-2.cs
> > DelayTweaks-ar.cs
> > DelayStartup-ar.cs
> > SemaCritical-ar.cs
> > 
> > ?
> 
> Very different. The above were written against Croquet which is a 3.8 
> variant that doesn't have the problem. So there was no need to include 
> that fix since it would never affect me (and I didn't even know it 
> existed in 3.9).
> 
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
> 
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Norbert
> >> Cheers,
> >>    - Andreas
> >>
> >> Masashi UMEZAWA wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I've downloaded 3.10.1, and found that an important patch on Delay
> >>> seems not applied.
> >>>
> >>> Please see the details on Mantis:
> >>> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6834
> >>>
> >>> Strangely, the patch is not applied on 3.9 series also. I think it is
> >>> clearly a bug and it should be fixed.
> >>> Socket timeout relies on this method, so the bug is fatal.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
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