Package: libdb4.4 Severity: wishlist Version: 4.4.20-4 amd64 on Debian does not support kernel 2.6. Therefore, you can assume that libc uses mutexes which can be shared across address spaces, and --enable-posixmutexs should be safe (and result in slightly better performance on contention because there is no polling involved).
It looks like kernel 2.4 will be dropped from etch, so it might be safe to enable the option on other NPTL-capable architectures. However, this could make updates from sarge more complicated (a package which is present in sarge might introduce a dependency on libdb4.4 on its upgrade, and it will dysfunctional until the system is rebooted). Then again, applications using TDS (or the Berkeley DB lock subsystem) are not that common in Debian. Providing two versions is probably not a good idea because AFAIK, the on-disk database environments formats are slightly incompatible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
