On Feb 6, 2005, at 11:59 PM, Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 03:19 AM 7/02/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>
>
> >--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
> wrote:
> > > At 11:57 AM 5/02/2005 -0600, you wrote:
> > > >I'm running Firebird 1.0.3 (Linux).
> > >
> > > Classic or Superserver?
> >
> >Superserver (sorry about leaving that out of the info -- didn't think
> >about it).
>
> You were reporting a thread error, which seems out of place for
> Classic,
> since it doesn't (can't) spawn process threads. 

I'm running Superserver, not Classic.

> It could be some kind of error caused by using
> a Linux that has implemented the New Posix Thread Library (NPTL). 
> Firebird
> 1.0.3 doesn't support it - you have to turn it off.  Ask again if you
> don't
> know how.

Maybe that's it -- I'm running on Fedora Core 1, which does include
NPTL. I think you can disable it on a per-application basis by setting
LD_KERNEL_ASSUME to an older kernel, but which one should I specify?
2.2.5 is Linuxthreads without floating stacks and 2.4.19 is
Linuxthreads with floating stacks.