Shared Objects

Question

Not sure this is sound programming .. but I offer it up for opinion as it resolved an issue and seemingly works ..
The issue ..
Attempting to provide for "bookmarks" in an app w/ the Shared Object ..
Created the Obj in the maintimeline .. for the life of me I was unable to access the SO from a child MC .. e.g. parent.SharedObject.data. geneated errors
so I created a class object whose properties is the shared object and it worked ..
===== GlobalVars2.as
package{
public class GlobalVars2 {
  import flash.net.SharedObject;
  public static var UserStatus:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("UserStatus");
===== Parent MC
import GlobalVars2
if (GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.xml == undefined){ // 1st time here, build shared Object
trace("Doesn't Exist")
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.xml = new XML()
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.Protocol = ""
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.Domain = ""
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.Path = ""
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.ModFile = ""
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.Percent = 0
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.Nav_Played = false
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.M1_Played = false
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.M2_Played = false
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.M3_Played = false
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.M4_Played = false
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.M5_Played = false
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.M6_Played = false
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.M7_Played = false
SetEnviro() // populate shared object
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.flush()
========== Child MC
GlobalVars2.UserStatus.data.M7_Played = true

Answer 1

First of all, I'd recommend to use smpatch utility to update your system. It is available "out of the box" on Solaris 10 and can be installed on Solaris 8 and 9 separately.
If you don't use smpatch, here are some tips for manual patching process:
I can only tell you about first two - libthread and libnsl. They both belong to the same package, SUNWcsl:
$ pkgchk -l -p /usr/lib/libthread.so
Referenced by the following packages:
SUNWcsl
$ pkgchk -l -p /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
Referenced by the following packages:
SUNWcsl
Current status: installed
Now, to find out which patches are required, use 'showrev -p' command:
$ showrev -p | grep SUNWcsl
Next thing you do is search sunsolve.sun.com for latest versions of patches mentioned by showrev, download them and install with 'patchadd' command. This is rather painful process, so again, I recommend to use 'smpatch'.