--- gstreamer-0.10.10/gst/gst.c.orig	2006-10-17 10:35:19.126165000 +0800
+++ gstreamer-0.10.10/gst/gst.c	2006-10-17 10:35:29.869946000 +0800
@@ -104,6 +104,25 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
+
+/*
+ * This is a nasty hack.  I notice that GStreamer core dumps when this
+ * feature is enabled on Solaris.  The waitpid man page says that it
+ * returns -1 on failure, but I put a "sleep (20)" when the subprocess
+ * forks and attached the debugger to it.  Interestingly, the forked code
+ * seems to work fine and makes the "_exit (0)" call with the comment
+ * that _exit is being used to avoid causing the main process from
+ * crashing which is what it seems to cause on Solaris anyway.  Turning
+ * off this feature causes GStreamer to not check/rebuild the registry
+ * in a separate thread which slows down the code a bit, and it fixes
+ * the crash issue.  At some point, we should look into this more and
+ * fix the problem so GStreamer starts up faster.  This doesn't really
+ * break anything since this performance improvement is a new feature.
+ */ 
+#ifdef __sun
+#undef HAVE_FORK
+#endif
+
 #ifdef HAVE_FORK
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 #endif /* HAVE_FORK */