Stability of Solaris Release

[James Darrell McCauley]

Evan Preston (preston at malibu.dst.battelle.org) writes on 28 Sep 94:
>Not only is the XDRIVER graphics device not refreshing itself, but the

is this the backing store deal? anyone recall when this was discussed?

(we really need a better way to search archives of grass[up] - the 
current setup is kinda cumbersome)

>like SPARC 10, SPARC1+, etc.).  The slowness involves defining frames (d.frame),
>writing text (d.text), drawing raster files (d.rast), etc.

the solution here is to use the Message Queue patch that's
on moon. (The problem is that the SysV implementation of fifos
is different, "not as 'native'" as the BSD implementation.)

>If anyone can tell me whether the GRASS release under Solaris is stable or not,

Yes, it is stable. We run a medium-sized (80 workstations), 
completely-Solaris GRASS shop, and everything runs fine (with the Message 
Queue patch).

--Darrell

P.S. Evan: admittedly, I was pretty skeptical of Solaris 
before the Message Queue fix was proposed. Now, however,
it's a trouble-free installation.