RE: Re: LOCK Fixes/Break on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE

From: "Larry Rosenman" <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Alfred Perlstein" <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net>
Cc: "Larry Rosenman" <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>, "PostgreSQL Hackers List" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: RE: Re: LOCK Fixes/Break on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE
Date: 2000-12-05 15:23:26
Message-ID: NCBBKBDOOHHEJCJHLLPAAEPGIFAA.ler@lerctr.org
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Actually, Alfred is a FreeBSD committer, and committed it
to the FreeBSD source tree.

It's for ALL at FreeBSD 4-STABLE as of today.

LER

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 9:14 AM
To: Alfred Perlstein
Cc: Larry Rosenman; PostgreSQL Hackers List
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: LOCK Fixes/Break on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE

Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net> writes:
> Anyhow, to address the problem I've removed struct mount from
> userland visibility in both FreeBSD 5.x (current) and FreeBSD 4.x
> (stable).

That might fix things on your box, but we can hardly rely on it as an
answer for everyone running FreeBSD :-(.

Anyway, I've already worked around the problem by rearranging the PG
headers so that plperl doesn't need to import s_lock.h ...

regards, tom lane

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