>Ben Rockwood wrote:
>> I've had a couple applications have assorted strange problems on recent
>> Nevada builds. One of t
he applications was the LiteSpeed Web Server, and the response from LiteSpeed
regarding the problem
was that an ABI change broke compatibility with existing Solaris8/9 X86 32 bit
binaries.
>>
>> Is this true or false? I can't find any evidence of such a change, but I
>> might be overlooking s
omething. Can anyone comment?
>
>There were some changes to individual interfaces - without knowing which one,
>it's hard to comment. (For instance, in Solaris 10, fork() changed from
>fork1() to forkall() for POSIX threads compliance - the man page explains
>more.)
The other way around, but yes.
A call to fork() is identical to a call to fork1(); only the
calling thread is replicated in the child process. This is
the POSIX-specified behavior for fork().
Casper
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