Why disable threads for Bind 9 on Solaris 2.6 ??

Scott Bertilson scott at nts.umn.edu
Sun Feb 11 00:29:23 UTC 2001


> 	Because there are bugs in the pthreads implementation.

  I've joined bind9-users and bind9-workers, have looked
through the archives, and "CHANGES" in 9.1.0.  I'm looking
for a little more detail on this and not finding it.

  What exactly is the problem?  I think I read a note
that said there was a problem with signals being delivered to
the wrong thread.  I suppose the person who wrote this must
have read it on "bind9-??" before I joined it.

  Are there patches for Solaris 6 that can solve this?

  What release of Solaris does one have to run to enable
threads in BIND 9?

  Is there any downside to running it with threads disabled?

  Would like to get on the BIND 9 bandwagon, but need info.

					Thanks, Scott


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