Re: Unable to fork off sideband demultiplexer

From: Brandon Casey <brandon.casey.ctr@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Jun 3, 2011, 22:18 UTC
Message-ID: <hHoAK3_nb0Xfx67o9GUPrCAUvVBvhjmiF5J8x5abCUQeaCChUD3Q3Q@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To: <20110603144907.GA11273@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 06/03/2011 09:49 AM, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:30:00PM +0000, Randy Brandenburg wrote:
> 
>>> If you build without NO_PTHREADS set on a Solaris 9 box, does it
>>> work on that same box? That would confirm or deny my ABI
>>> compatibility theory (and hopefully point us in the right direction
>>> for the sunfreeware people to build a binary that works on Solaris 9
>>> and 10).
>>>
>>
>> Building without NO_PTHREADS set results in the original "broken"
>> behaviour. I am staying with the working version in the interest of
>> time. May investigate more later.
> 
> Thanks, that's a good data point. I know you are probably out of time
> for fooling with such things, but if you get a chance, could you try
> building also with "-pthreads" in PTHREAD_CFLAGS? I'm wondering if the
> problem is as simple as that.

I generally build on 5.7 using Sun WSPro compilers and then test that binary on 5.7 and 5.9. The latest that I have compiled is 1.7.5.3 and I haven't seen this thread error.

Also note, I only do the above for testing purposes (and fun :). Solaris is not a primary development platform, so it does not get a lot of active testing in practice. The 5.9 system doesn't even have a compiler installed, so I can't try to duplicate this problem.

-Brandon