Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: Re: little NPTL SCHED_FIFO test program
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 16:59, Paul Davis wrote:
> >> > 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.
>
Yeah I actually meant to snip those two lines. Oops. I retract that
statement. I stand by the rest of my rant.
> 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.
Right, as already established, we need the workaround anyway. But, the
fix is even more trivial than the workaround, I see no reason for Debian
not to apply it.
Actually, it's possible that the patch would break some apps, because I
think with the fix, if it fails it actually returns status indicating
failure. Maybe a bug-for-bug compatible patch would be more acceptable.
Lee
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