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[Behdad Esfahbod]

Is this fixed in 0.94?  I have read that just an RPM
recompilation solves the problem, and the way RPM is currently
using open is agains POSIX standards.

behdad


On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Florian La Roche wrote:

> > It's likely the db4/nptl combo doing wierd things. Try setting
> > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 *or* recompiling the rpm package after
>
> This did it.
>
> > disabling --enable-posixmutexes in the rpm.spec file.
> >
> > Search the rpm-list list archives for 'O_DIRECT' and/or
> > 'posixmutexes'. There's a whole set of ugliness goin' on, and the Red
> > Hat kernels have their open(2) calls hacked to avoid it. Other,
> > non-Red Hat kernels run into trouble with db's write() calls.
>
> O_DIRECT should be disabled in my db4.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Florian La Roche
>
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