[linux-dvb] Re: Is there anything I could do to make editingmark working under 2.6?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Arne Gellhaus wrote:
> 
> Gregoire Favre wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:23:25PM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> >
> >
> >>What works for me is:
> >>
> >>LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 ./vdr
> >>
> >>Which means that this problem is unrelated to the DVB drivers,
> >>but due to changed behaviour of the new NPTL (native posix
> >>threading library) vs. the old linuxthreads.
> >>
> >>(LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 makes glibc use linuxthreads
> >>even if the kernel is capable of running NPTL.)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >;-)
> >
> >It works perfectly, I didn't immediatly try it because I didn't fully
> >understand all answer!!!
> >
> >So, the "bug" is in VDR?
> >
> >
> I can confirm this. So the problem is that vdr can't deal properly with
> pthreads. This is known for 1.2.x, but 1.3.x states in the HISTORY file
> that this problem is solved, so i didn't tried the old threading lib.

Well, maybe somebody who is running NPTL can debug this.
I was under the assumption that the problem was solved by the
changes introduced in version 1.3.0.

Klaus


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