Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: Re: little NPTL SCHED_FIFO test program

[Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>]

>> > MONTHS were spent tracking this bug down.  It is an insult to the
>> > Linux audio community for Debian to refuse to fix this.

i think this is a bit of an overstatement.

the bug affects one particular type of programming construct:

    pthread_attr_t attr;

    ... set attr ...

    pthread_create (&thread, &attr, ...)


it has no effect on the alternative:

   void *
   thread_work (void *arg)
   {
         pthread_setschedparam (...);
	 ...
   }

so there *is* a workaround for the bug. and i personally believe that
JACK, at least, should be using the workaround.

--p