[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Crash on AIX 6.1 TL6 SP3

Andrew Deason adeason@sinenomine.net
Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:56:07 -0600


On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:57:46 -0500
Todd DeSantis <atd@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> The problems with these crashes would start in TL5.  And as
> Andrew mentions, there was probably another change in the socket
> structures responsible for this.
> 
> If the AFS binaries are compiled on an AIX 6.1 TL5 machine,
> then they will work on the TL5 and TL6 versions of the OS.

Is there any easy way we can detect this change at runtime (or just the
version and TL), so we could refuse to load or return some kind of error
instead of panicing the machine?

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Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net