Problems with pread() in 2.2.2 for HP-UX 11.00

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:30:31PM +0200, DOELKER,RAINER (HP-Germany,ex2) wrote:
> Hello Albert,
> 
> yes you are absolutely correct the Patch you mentioned introduced these
> systemcalls the first time for HP-UX11.0. In HP-UX 11.i (11.11) it is
> included in the core-filesets. 
> It seems not to be available to HP-UX 10.20 systems as it does not support
> kernel-threads. 
> 
> IMHO patches are often needed to enhance the system's functionality and this
> patch is approx 2 years old while HP-UX11.0 is now approx older than 4
> years. So applying an actual libc  and this kernel patch would be a good
> idea. (Although I can understand a defensive patch strategy)
> 
> Jeremy, perhaps a small note in the samba-docs (system requirements) would
> be helpful?

I'll add a note in WHATSNEW for 2.2.3 (remind me nearer the time :-).

Jeremy.