Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:29:01 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysql: a lot of lost connections... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012112227060.2983-100000@shark.harmonic.co.il> In-Reply-To: <20001211111747.B98131@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:12:06PM +0200, Roman Shterenzon wrote: > > > As has been mentioned on this list, you can use 4.2-STABLE, but you > > > must change the compiler. > > > > > > 4.2-RELEASE has a known mutex bug that was discussed on this list and > > > fixed about two days after the release. Since this was a well-known > > > bug, > > > why on earth did you even bother with 4.2-RELEASE? > > > > Today I've checked the ERRATA _again_, still no signs of this bug. > > We're hopefully not trying to hide bugs like some other *BSD folks tend > > to do sometimes? > > You seem to have missed my emails saying that Jason Evans and I cannot > reproduce this (the need for changing the compiler), and my call asking > those that can to help. I see not a single person has been willing to > spend the time doing this. > > It is not in the Errata because we don't know what to put in there since > there hasn't been an in-depth analysis of the problem. David, I was talking about the libc_r (i.e. "mutex bug") bug and not the one discussed in this thread - you were fooled by the subject, sorry for not changing it. I think that the pthread bug deserves its place in the ERRATA.TXT --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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