From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 6 20:14: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.svzserv.kemerovo.su (www.svzserv.kemerovo.su [213.184.65.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4056237B403 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 20:13:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su) Received: from svzserv.kemerovo.su (kost [213.184.65.82]) by www.svzserv.kemerovo.su (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA37618 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:13:53 +0800 (KRAST) (envelope-from eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su) Message-ID: <3B6F5CF4.676788F4@svzserv.kemerovo.su> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:13:56 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein Organization: SVZServ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: PERL_THREAD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Recently we upgraded one of our production servers running 4.3-STABLE to RELENG_4 due to recent security fixes; downgrading to RELENG_4_3 seemed not be necessary :( This server uses OpenLink's (http://www.openlinksw.com) UDBC library libudbc which uses pthreads. Our applications are perl programs that use DBD::ODBC linked with libudbc so threaded perl is required. After upgrade this service is completely broken. We found this: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1269673+1271652+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/cvs-all/20010603.cvs-all So, there is two questions: 1. When PERL_THREAD be revived? 2. Why such serious change of functionality was done nearly silent? Now we have solution of downgrading to RELENG_4_3 but what will be in the near future when RELENG_4_4 will be forked from RELENG_4_4_RELEASE if latter won't support PERL_THREAD? Eugene Grosbein. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message