From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 23 14:21:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA29001 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:21:23 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA28995 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:21:18 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA11769; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:13:19 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510232113.OAA11769@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Netscape puzzle To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:13:19 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, nate@rocky.sri.MT.net, kaleb@x.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510231841.MAA22178@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 23, 95 12:41:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1090 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Terry Lambert writes: > [ Netscape not working ] > > Another potential datapoint: > > > > We are all aware of the bind/sendmail static data initialization shared > > library changes, right? > > Refreh my memory. They changed the initializations to something that would allow copy on write shared library data to be used as well. Basically, it's getting rid of local data for crappy shared library implementations. If you mixed old and new implementations (check the bind release notes), then the behaviour became undefined, even if you recompiled everything. One (hack) fix is to call the initialization before it's strictly allowed. > > The ones that Matt Day reported and provided patches for in both Linux > > and BSD and to the package authors? > > I don't remember seeing it. Was in on the ports mailing list? No. It was on hackers and it was sent to one or more NetBSD and Linux lists, as well as being mailed to Allman & company. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.