On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:38:26AM +0000, David Given wrote: > I'm interested in doing a package for spey, my greylisting SMTP proxy > (http://spey.sf.net). This isn't going to happen immediately, but I'm due to > make another upstream release soon, and if that goes well I want to start > work on the package. > > Unfortunately, the application has its own coroutine library that turns out > to > have a nasty conflict with linuxthreads (due to allocating its own stacks, > which causes linuxthreads to crash). linuxthreads is used as part of glibc on > 2.4 kernels. 2.6 kernels, such as the one I did the development on, are fine. > > Is it possible to specify this as part of the package dependencies, and if so > how, or am I just going to have to document the fact that it'll crash on > startup on a 2.4 system? Is this, in fact, not appropriate for inclusion in > Debian because of this? > > (And if anyone wants to suggest a real fix, please get in touch. The *only* > reason I'm asking about this is because I can't find any way of working > around the problem.) Have you tried echo -n 1 >/proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout? (I don't know if its 1, actually, mb try the values 0 through 3).
You can have the same effect with personality(), but seems to require an exec(). I'd be interested if this was the case; let me know. -- Clear skies, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
