Re: libc and BitTorrent

2005-06-17 Thread -f
hmm, on Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:12:32PM +0200, Artur Grabowski said that > -f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > hi there, > > > > i was looking at BitTorrent, and this caught my attention: > > > > --enable_bad_libc_workaround > > enable workaround for a bug in BSD libc that makes file reads

Re: libc and BitTorrent

2005-06-16 Thread Artur Grabowski
-f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi there, > > i was looking at BitTorrent, and this caught my attention: > > --enable_bad_libc_workaround > enable workaround for a bug in BSD libc that makes file reads > very slow. (defaults to 1) > > > anybody knows what does this mean, and is o

Re: libc and BitTorrent

2005-06-16 Thread Christian Weisgerber
-f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i was looking at BitTorrent, and this caught my attention: > > --enable_bad_libc_workaround > enable workaround for a bug in BSD libc that makes file reads > very slow. (defaults to 1) > > anybody knows what does this mean, and is openbsd affected? Y

Re: libc and BitTorrent

2005-06-16 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, -f wrote: > i was looking at BitTorrent, and this caught my attention: > > --enable_bad_libc_workaround > enable workaround for a bug in BSD libc that makes file reads > very slow. (defaults to 1) > > > anybody knows what does this mean, and is openbsd affected

Re: libc and BitTorrent

2005-06-16 Thread Andreas Kahari
According to this post, OpenBSD is one of the BSDs affected: http://www.mirrorshades.org/overflow/archives/002611.shtml I also found a mentioning of this in NetBSD pkgsrc-bugs: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bugs/2005/05/03/0006.html Andreas On 16/06/05, -f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > h