From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 11 12:34: 8 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 12:34:06 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shark.harmonic.co.il (jupiter.harmonic.co.il [192.116.140.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F6937B400; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:34:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (roman@localhost) by shark.harmonic.co.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03055; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:29:01 +0200 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:29:01 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon To: "David O'Brien" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mysql: a lot of lost connections... In-Reply-To: <20001211111747.B98131@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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