Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Gnomemeeting and RedHat 9 Problems

[Miguel Rodríguez <Miguel Rodriguez det uvigo es>]

El mar, 15 de 04 de 2003 a las 11:57, derek indranet co nz escribió:
> 
> Conclusion:
>  a)Redhat have broken binary compatibility.
>  b)Redhat 8.0 is kernel 2.4.18, Redhat 9.0 is kernel 2.4.20
>    Since the change is only at the patch level, I would not expect such
>    a drastic alteration in performance. Clearly, numbering conventions are
>    not followed by redhat.
>  c)I am severely annoyed. You see, when rewriting the ixj driver, I was 
>    told to maintain binary compatibility. One of the people who told me 
>    this works at redhat. YET, they can't maintain binary compatibility.
>    Various words come to mind.
>    Shame on you redhat.
>  d)set the environment variable on redhat 9
>      LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
>  e)you might be lucking - gnomeeting will work on redhat 9 with an 
>    ordinary sound card, without setting the environment variable. 
> 
> 
> have I started a war with this letter?
> If I have, sorry. In your flames etc, PLEASE stick to facts.
Ok, just facts.
Yes, RedHat broken binary compat, that is why they called the thing RH9,
and not RH8.1.
And about the change it getpid() returning the same value in all threads
that is in fact a long awaited bug fix. The getpid() call is supposed to
return the process id, and that should be the same in all threads, as
they are part of the same process. So the fact that it returned
different values previously is a bug.

Btw, I have nothing to do with RedHat (to the point I do not use it
myself). But they should not be blamed for fixing getpid().