From: Michael Widenius
Date: March 24 1999 2:45am
Subject: RE: Problems with LONGTEXT/BSDI 4.0
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>>>>> "Len" == Len Rose <len@stripped> writes:

Len> The application is myql itself.. I've tested this on Solaris and BSDI 4.0.. it
Len> only fails on BSDI 4.0.. isamchk -o output doesn't indicate anything wrong.. 

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Hi!

I have now diagnosed the problem.  There is a feature in the mutex and
condition handling in the BSDI 4.0 thread library that makes it
incompatible with applications that follows the posix threads
specifications..  Until this is fixed, MySQL will not
work properly on BSDI 4.0 !

(I can provide a patch for this, but I would prefer that BSDI removes
this 'feature' from their thread library rather than making a ugly patch
for MySQL)

Regards,
Monty