Re: Informix on Linux?

Posted in 1997

David Williams — Wed, 29 Jan 1997 00:09:07 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <01bc0b71$4e473230$bf01128b@servilo>, Wolfram Diestel <diestel@rzaix340.rz.uni-leipzig.de> writes >I was trying to run Informix on Linux with iBCS- >emulation for SCO. >After few problems I succeeded to run the >installation procedure and the onmonitor >tool of Informix. So principially >does it function. > >But oninit -i gives an error: > >oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation. > >In the logfile online.log are the following lines: > >22:03:06 semctl: errno = 22 >22:03:06 create_vp: cannot allocate memory> >The 22 meens EINVAL, i.e. semctl was invoked with >an invalid value of parameter cmd or semid. > >But how to treaet this problem. Have anybody a hint? > > >Thanks, Wolfram. > > I have never heard of anyone getting Online working under Linux (SE yes, Online no). Online uses a lot more system calls then SE (E.g. semaphores/shared memory) and iCBS has not provided good enough emulation so far.. -- David Williams