It looks like the bug with KQUEUE (kqueue() can't close() obtained descriptors if linked with libc_r) has been reported to the FreeBSD team as a 5.3 specific problem. The link follows:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=threads/75795 Jeff null wrote: >Greetings all, > I have several *BSD servers running and I was hoping to implement >Xmail as a replacement for the sendmail server that is running on them >now. So I am wondering (having not yet tried it) if there is a Linux >version of Xmail. And if so, why not run it on BSD with Linux >compatibility enabled (starting the OS with the Linux ABI). I realize >this is not a long term solution. But seems as though it might be an >answer in the short term. > >Just a thought. > >--Chris > > > > >>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Dofri Jonsson wrote: >> >> >> >>>I had the same problem with KQUEUEs in FreeBSD, although I had no idea >>>what >>>the reason was until decker's post. >>> >>>So I did as he suggested and recompiled without libc_r and ran XMail, >>>which >>>crashed about twenty hours later producing this unhelpful backtrace: >>> >>> >>Guys, XMail is multi-threaded, and non reentrant functions are gonna crash >>it. XMail uses directly the reentrant version of those functions (*_r()) >>and I hoped that using explicitly those function would avoid the linkage >>of libc_r. But it seems that the std libc, instead of sanely implement the >>reentrant functions, just wrap them with the non reentrant version. Please >>link against >> >> > >libc_r and ask ask a fix of the libc library to BSD dudes. > > >> >>- Davide >> >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >>the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
