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



On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 19:29, Martijn Sipkema wrote:
> [...]
> > so there *is* a workaround for the bug. and i personally believe that
> > JACK, at least, should be using the workaround.
> 
> It's a pretty serious bug though, in that very basic functionality doesn't
> not work correctly, and I personally wouldn't go out of my way to
> program a workaround.
> 

Worse, it claims to be POSIX compliant, and silently does the wrong
thing.

This 'bug' is not even a bug, it's a stopgap measure, the developers
intentionally broke POSIX compliance because the kernel support wasn't
good enough.  Now that it's good enough, glibc should be fixed.  QED.

Lee



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