[elephant-devel] Re: Updated version of last Postmodern patch bundle

[Robert L. Read]

I think it is great that you two have reached a consensus.  If Alex can
spend the time improving the tests that Leslie started along the lines
that he mentioned, I think that would be good progress for Elephant.

Thanks, gentlemen...each of these improvements makes Elephant a little
more robust.



On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 14:23 +0100, Leslie P. Polzer wrote:
> That's fine by me.
> 
> 
> > as i have ideas how to "improve" concurrent test suite, probably it
> would be
> > better if i'll just take over the suite and implement them. however,
> i'm
> > open about other ideas about future of this test suite :).
> 
> Go ahead and take it, you seem to be more adamant about it than me :)
> As you have noticed, it's quite hackish ATM.
> 
> 
> > also i have a question unrelated to test suite: it says me that
> > thread-alive-p used in reap-orphaned-connections in db-postmodern is
> not
> > defined. where should this function come from, newer version of
> bordeax
> > threads (perhaps i have an outdated package)?
> 
> I have 0.2.2 here. The API docs have it, too, albeit in a section
> accompanied
> by this note:
> 
> "The following functions may be provided for debugging purposes, but
> are not advised to
> be called from normal user code."
> 
> Grepping through the source shows that it's defined for every
> supported
> implementation except MCL and Corman CL.
> 
>   Leslie
>