Re: Informix on Linux?

Posted in 1997

Wolfram Diestel — 2 Feb 1997 13:48:40 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Cosmo Lee <cosmo@echonyc.com> wrote in article <32EFF84D.137F@echonyc.com>... > You could try not using shared memory for communicating client to > server. Online uses specific kernel memory parameters, depending on the > platform. iBCS is probably only useful as a set of APIs that can be > used to form a base of common functions. But it seems to me that as > soon as you start talking actual memory addresses, which will change > from platform to platform, compatibility goes out the window. Try > communicating via pipes or TCP/IP instead, maybe that will solve the > problem - but I'm just guessing here. Just I succeded to run Informix 7.12 with Linux 2.0.18 and latest available version of iBCS using shared memory for client/server-communication. But not trough sockets :-( So I can use it only locally. See my posting above, what error message I get. Could you give me more information about this?