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

[derek indranet co nz]

Hi,
 humble pie time for me.

Aplogies to Redhat.
 The kernel version implies binary compatibility.
 
 However, and more importantly, as you and others point out, redhat is
on redhat 9, a major version number change.
So, binary compatibility complaints are not valid.

Again, My apologies to Redhat.

Derek.
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On 15 Apr 2003, Miguel Rodríguez wrote:

> 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().
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