At 10:51 AM 20/12/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi HeLen,
>
>We did try the new NPTL builds.
>More as a "try and see wether this is better" approach than as a well
>funded desciscion :-(
>I hadn't noticed the "NTPL problems" item in the release docs (mainly
>because I wasn't even aware that Redhat 9 was NPTL).

From p.57:
! NTPL problems on higher Linuxen:
The new NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library) in Red Hat 9 (so far) will cause
problems for SuperServer and locally compiled programs, including the
utilities. Gbak, particularly, will throw a Broken Pipe error. To fix....

>But the release docs of the new NPTL build mention that the NPTL
>problems were solved. Should I still do what is mentioned in the
>initial release docs ?

NPTL "problems" means trying to run an application that uses the old
threading model on a distro that uses the NPTL. So disable NPTL if you
want to run a non-NPTL version of SS; or sail ahead with NPTL on RH 9 if
the NPTL version works fine.

./hb