We are hitting this problem in RHEL4 here
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455696

so I cloned the 5.4 bz to 4.7.

Oh yeah, I ported the upstream patch to RHEL4 here
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=329133

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Mike - I'm assuming this is a post-Beta candidate for 4.8?

Rob is working on it. We are having troubles with the ported patch not working as expected.

I think Tom really wants this to go in before a beta, so that is gets a lot of testing, and I agree that it needs lots of testing to make sure it will not cause a regression. So I guess if we do not make beta then it is 4.9???? Am I in sync with what everyone else was thinking?

the problems I was seeing with the rhel4.8 ported patch were due to a bug in the test code I was using.  Once the test code was fixed, the patch worked as expected.

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