FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

Yeah, I saw the problem.  I believe it happens with a true-blue Sybase 4.2 
dblib-based isql too, but have been unable to dredge one up to test it ;-)

Anyway, it's a flat out server bug, possibly fixed in the latest EBF's but 
again I haven't had the time to look recently. 12.5 GA and the first EBF 
(sorry don't have the number handy) had the problem.

Brian

BTW, someone forwarded me a note the other day, and I don't know if you 
guys have seen this, but Sybase apparently is using FreeTDS for its plugin 
to REALBasic on the Mac, which I personally find fascinating.

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Lowden, James K wrote:

> > From: ZIGLIO Frediano [mailto:Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it]
> > Sent: January 29, 2003 11:22 AM
> > >
> > > I updated several files in preparation for 0.61rc1.  The 
> > > version number
> > > and .so numbers have been bumped, the text files updated to reflect
> > > changes since the last release.  I consider this ready, 
> > 
> > Only one thing.. what's the problem with Sybase 12.5, 
> > described in README ??
> 
> AFAIK, the problem Brian (?) discovered with Sybase 12.5 and TDS 4.2 hasn't
> been addressed.  Our TDS 4.2 implementation crashes a Sybase 12.5 server.
> The warning was taken from the README-0.60 that was included in that
> release.  I figured we need only one README, so I included the warning in
> it.  
> 
> One of these days, I'm going to rewrite tds_send_login().  It should be
> handed a structure of TDS_X_LOGIN (where X is the version) to write out to
> the server.  As written, it's very hard to tell what's being sent, because
> the data are pulled from a variety of sources and written on the fly,
> complete with #if's for endianism and branches for the TDS version.  
> 
> Perhaps if we made what we're doing more plain, Sybase could tell us what to
> differently.  
> 
> We should add this to Known Issues in the UG.  
> 
> --jkl
> 
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