[libvirt] [Libvirt-announce] Start of freeze for libvirt-0.9.8 and availability of rc1

[Peter Krempa]

On 12/02/2011 01:42 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 02:11:24PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On IRC:
>>
>> eblake	DV: it looks like you missed my gnulib update for rc1 - what do
>> we do about that?
>> DV	eblake: oops, well let's update in git
>> DV	it will be in rc2, as long as there is a release candidate with the
>> update I think it's fine
>>
>> I'll use that to justify pushing my pending gnulib update now.
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-November/msg01635.html
>>
>> But that means we really are committing to an rc2.
>
>    Definitely. For example there is apparently a problem with commit
> fa9595003d043df9f2efe95521c00898cef27106 that we ough to fix quickly too
> to allow further testing :-)
>
> Daniel
>
The problem was caused by two threads that both were thinking they are 
having the buck and entering poll() which caused some clients to hang. 
It was possible due to a race condition and therefore was not 100% 
reproducible. It should be fixed now with:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-December/msg00116.html

Peter