> -----Original Message-----
> From: ville.mattila / stonesoft.com 
> [mailto:ville.mattila / stonesoft.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:57 AM
> To: ruby-core / ruby-lang.org
> Cc: ruby-core / ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: 64-bit Solaris READ_DATA_PENDING Revisited
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
>  This patch is quite clever! I've been struggling with 64 bit 
> issue on amd64 and could not solve  the drb hang problem 
> cleanly. I'll test this patch monday and will generate patch 
> that works both sparc and amd64.  We have be very carefull if 
> SUN will ever change internal FILE structures in 64 bit mode. 
> Maybe we should as  nicely if SUN would implemented pending 
> read version for our needs.
> 
>   - Ville

You could probably get it into OpenSolaris.  Dunno about Solaris proper,
though.

- Dan