[vdr] Re: Avoiding NPTL problems

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

Christian Gmeiner wrote:
> 
> Hi Klaus,
> 
> > Since there are apparently still massive problems with running
> > VDR on an NPTL system, and I currently don't plan to set up an
> > NPTL system myself and spend time debugging this, and also because
> > the patches suggested by Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> in the
> > "Driver or VDR Problem setting and jusageing cutmarks on Nexus 2.1"
> > and Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@gmx.de> in the "[PATCH] NPTL" thread
> > change a bit too much for my taste (maybe that is all necessary after
> > all, but I just can't verify it myself now), I'm planning on adding a few
> lines
> Some guys work hard to get it working with a NPTL-System and you ignore
> their
> work? Thats not the fine way. If you setup a NTPL box and see that the guys
> have
> changed too much ok, but without testing.

It's just a matter of time, which I don't have right now (at least
not for this matter).

All I want to do is to make sure nobody stumbles over this while
his VDR is already running. I'm not saying that I'll ignore what
people are doing to actually fix the NPTL problems. I just can't
do any testing myself at this time, and the suggested changes are
IMO too much to simply "throw them in" without testing them myself.

If you prefer, I can just as well leave this security check out.
Then VDR will first "seem" to run on an NPTL system and hang later.

Klaus