From: Vivek Khera Date: March 24 1999 3:03pm Subject: RE: Problems with LONGTEXT/BSDI 4.0 List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/896 Message-Id: <14072.65197.614077.464405@kci.kciLink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> "MW" == Michael Widenius writes: This is bad. Really bad. Please provide details so I can contact BSDI support and have them fix it. It is vital to my business. >>>>> "Len" == Len Rose 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.. MW> MW> Hi! MW> I have now diagnosed the problem. There is a feature in the mutex and MW> condition handling in the BSDI 4.0 thread library that makes it MW> incompatible with applications that follows the posix threads MW> specifications.. Until this is fixed, MySQL will not MW> work properly on BSDI 4.0 ! MW> (I can provide a patch for this, but I would prefer that BSDI removes MW> this 'feature' from their thread library rather than making a ugly patch MW> for MySQL) MW> Regards, MW> Monty MW> --------------------------------------------------------------------- MW> Please check "http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_toc.html" before MW> posting. To request this thread, e-mail mysql-thread869@stripped MW> To unsubscribe, send a message to the address shown in the MW> List-Unsubscribe header of this message. If you cannot see it, MW> e-mail mysql-unsubscribe@stripped instead. v.