FESco meeting summary for 20090507

[drago01]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
> drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> writes:
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> I've run into it twice in the past two months for apps used inside Red
>>> Hat.  (Not developed inside Red Hat, I'm glad to say.)  This is out of a
>>> sample of exactly two apps, since I avoid webapps where I can.  So I
>>> admit I don't have a lot of data, but from here it looks like a problem.
>
>> Well if our java implementation is broken it should be broken for 32 bit too.
>> As for sun's java they have released a 64 bit plugin.
>
> I'm not speaking of the JVM --- I'm talking about unportable
> applications.  I suspect most of the problem is JNI code, but I cannot
> claim to have attempted to debug it.
>
>> So this should be no longer relevant.
>
> Which part of "you're wrong" is not clear?  This is a very real issue.

OK, so there are some random apps that are broken, but this seems not
to be the common case.