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Re: Unable to fork off sideband demultiplexer

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RBRandy Brandenburg <randy.brandenburg@woh.rr.com>
Date
Jun 3, 2011, 13:30 UTC
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Jeff King <peff <at> peff.net> writes:
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> Great, I'm glad it's working. With NO_PTHREADS set, you will be
> fork()ing off the sideband process instead of using a thread. So you
> avoid pthreads altogether and it works, but you can't do multi-threaded
> delta compression.
> 
> 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 for all the insight and tips.
- Randy
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