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@@ -37,10 +37,12 @@ completion by Richard Braun, who could not be scared by having to resolve the
last remaining tricky issues before the transition could be completed.
Cyril Roelandt shared a [patch
-series](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00018.html) to
-fix double mutex unlocking with pthreads. We will likely see more fixes like
-these, given that the whole threading interface changed, which will expose
-previously invisible bugs.
+series](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/threads.html#00018)
+to fix double mutex unlocking problems. He found these using a simple script
+for [Coccinelle](http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/), which is a [[static code analysis
+tool|open_issues/code_analysis]]. We hope to see more such changes in the
+future, and we're always interested in hearing people who have experience with
+similar tools, for example to resolve other [[open_issues/locking_issues]].
Thomas Schwinge together with Richard Braun and Samuel Thibault [debugged and
fixed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00044.html) a