From: Randy Brandenburg <randy.brandenburg@woh.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:30:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Unable to fork off sideband demultiplexer
Message-ID: <loom.20110603T151012-143@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110602192927.GA21262@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff <at> peff.net> writes:

> 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