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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>, Yury Gribov <y.gribov@samsung.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Stan Shebs <stanshebs@google.com>,
	       Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PING][PR gdb/19361] Fix invalid comparison functions
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56844BE3.9030508@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJOtW+7zb01iC7y4unfo6vVPN2z4_eHoD7xn93f-9tRfy7ffag@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/30/2015 08:18 PM, Yuri Gribov wrote:

> Sorry, I should have been more wordy about the actual problem. With
> current approach i.e.
> 
>   if (pid1 == pgid1)
>     return -1;
>   else if (pid2 == pgid2)
>     return 1;
> 
> comparison of two group leaders is not going to be symmetric:
> 
>   cmp(lead_1, lead_2) == cmp(lead_2, lead_1) == -1

Aaaaaaah, d'oh!  Thanks, it's obvious now, yes, we fail to consider
the case of both elements being leaders.  I couldn't see that
even after staring at the code for a while.  That hunk is OK as
is then.  (Please clarify this in the commit log.)

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-30 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-15 11:51 [PATCH][PR " Yury Gribov
2015-12-29  7:31 ` [PATCH][PING][PR " Yury Gribov
2015-12-29 17:27   ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-29 18:09     ` Yury Gribov
2015-12-30 20:18       ` Yuri Gribov
2015-12-30 21:25         ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2015-12-30 21:35           ` Pedro Alves
2016-01-02  2:18             ` Yuri Gribov

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