Can't Join and GNU problem found

[Cabler, Adam W]

Thanks for clearing that up.  I guess I can stop damning SGI for a while
now;).  BTW - is there a compile(or other) option that I can use with gcc to
get this to work???  I prefer using gnu stuff.

thanks,
adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 12:05 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Can't Join and GNU problem found


Cabler, Adam W wrote:
> 
>         As far as the gnu problem, I think there is a problem when
compiling
> samba with gnu on IRIX 6.x.  I just brought up a new 6.5 machine, and
after
> getting the can't IPC stat problem, I was at a loss for a day or so until
I
> tried compiling with the SGI cc compiler.  This woked fine and seemed to
fix
> my problems.  I have to wonder if SGI didn't introduce some
incompatability
> so ppl would have to license their compiler, which no longer comes under
the
> normal development license.  Anyway, just thought that might help someone
> with the same problem.

No, it's not intentional (I work for SGI). THe problem
is that gcc and IRIX cc use different structure passing
conventions on the stack. Normally this isn't a problem
as there are no system calls that take a structure rather
than a pointer..... except one :-). You guessed it, it's
that semop() call :-(. That's why to make Samba work with
sysV shared memory on IRIX you have to use IRIX cc. It
works fine if you tell it to use the shared memory code
that does mmap+fcntl locking.

Hope this helps,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.

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