Hello Sasha, Thanks for your reply.
> At this point, I have two theories: > > a) There is something wrong with your gethostbyname_r function > b) MySQL has a sublte buffer overrun ( probably only a couple of bytes), > that > in your case happen to corrupt some critical structures in > __gethostbyname_r. > I sent the same report to the bugs list, since I didn't know whether anyone would spot it in the general list :-) Monty Widenius responded to it in the bugs list and pointed out that OSF1 requires the user to do some initialisation before calling gethostbyname_r. The man page says that the hostent_data structure must be filled with zero bytes before the function is first called. So it looks like a "gotcha" put there by the good folks at Compaq to snare the unwary :-) Monty notes that gethostbyname is thread-safe under OSF1 (the man page says that it returns a pointer to thread-specific data) and he suggests that I remove the "#define HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R" directive from config.h after running configure. I'll try that and report back via the bugs list. Best wishes David Harper Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, England Tel: 01223 834244 Fax: 494919 http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/adh/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
