Firebird 2 Bug Fixes

Firebird 2 Bug Fixes
(CORE-3001) The POSIX installation routine was failing to create the “firebird” user and group.
fixed by A. Peshkov
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(CORE-2919) The POSIX installation script was ignoring non-standard ports.
fixed by A. Peshkov
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(CORE-2865) A segmentation fault would occur when the Superserver binary on POSIX was restarted.
fixed by A. Peshkov
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(CORE-2845) The build process on Solaris would stop with the message: “need to use SFIO”. On the
whole, Solaris 10 no longer requires SFIO - the 64-bit builds do not suffer the issue with the maximum 255 file
descriptors and there are simple work-arounds for 32-bit builds. See this article for details.
However, the issue still affects Solaris 10 3/05 through Solaris 10 11/06. Some patches are needed to correct
the problem.
For the time being, the easiest solution is to leave the define in the code, but comment it with the relevant
information for Solaris 10. The define can be removed if the patches have been applied or the user is running
an unaffected version of Solaris 10.
Updated information concerning this issue has been inserted into common.h. Anyone building 32-bit Firebird
on Solaris 10 will have to make an informed decision according to the version and build/patch level of Solaris
before uncommenting the SFIO define.
fixed by P. Beach
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(CORE-2814) On SPARC, the server was crashing in the routine map_sort_data with a bus error.
fixed by V. Khorsun
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(CORE-2572) Locks of type LCK_page_space were being processed incorrectly on big-endian machines.
fixed by A. Peshkov
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Command-line Utilities
gbak
(CORE-3003) The “suspend check” on a stored procedure could cause a gbak restore to fail.
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