Jeff Trawick wrote:
>
> Also, we don't know how these things work in practice. What if (wild
> hypothesis) Solaris has it but the default kernel config allows only a
> handful of them? Then we start getting PRs from a bunch of the people
> who did --disable-threads on Solaris (and therefore aren't using
> pthread mutexes) and don't understand that "Out of space on device"
> means their system isn't configured for enough posix sems?
>
You mean like the pthreads stuff :)
Certainly, this is what test releases are for? If we need to adjust, we
adjust. At least with Posix sems where they are, we find out sooner
rather than later :)
--
===========================================================================
Jim Jagielski [|] jim@jaguNET.com [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/
"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order
will lose both and deserve neither" - T.Jefferson
|