Bug#370117: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#370117: Please compile with
--enable-posixmutexes on amd64
Florian Weimer
fw at deneb.enyo.de
Sun Jun 4 08:22:24 UTC 2006
* Clint Adams:
>> amd64 on Debian does not support kernel 2.6. Therefore, you can
>> assume that libc uses mutexes which can be shared across address
>> spaces, and --enable-posixmutexs should be safe (and result in
>> slightly better performance on contention because there is no polling
>> involved).
>
> What about biarch amd64/i386 systems?
No problem there. The database environment layout is already
incompatible. It contains structure fields declared as ssize_t, for
instance.
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