[vdr] Re: Threading issues on RH9

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

Jon Burgess wrote:
> 
> I have been having problems with getting vdr-1.1.33 to work reliably on
> a RH9 with a standard RH kernel (2.4.20-9).
> 
> The problem with VDR seems to stem from the fact that the RH kernel
> includes the new NPTL "Native Posix Thread Library". This has changed a
> few things which breaks the VDR threading.

Does this mean that when you do 'ps axf' you get

  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
...
 2578 pts/3    S      0:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/vdr start
 2579 pts/3    S      0:00  \_ /bin/sh ./x.run
 2650 pts/3    S      0:00      \_ su -c ./vdr -w 60 -P sky  kls
 2652 pts/3    S      0:09          \_ ./vdr -w 60 -P sky
 2654 pts/3    S      0:00              \_ ./vdr -w 60 -P sky
 2655 pts/3    S      1:26                  \_ ./vdr -w 60 -P sky
 2656 pts/3    S      0:00                  \_ ./vdr -w 60 -P sky
 2658 pts/3    S      2:26                  \_ ./vdr -w 60 -P sky
 2659 pts/3    S      0:37                  \_ ./vdr -w 60 -P sky

with all lines of the VDR threads having the same number in the first column?
That would seem kind'a weird to me...

Anyway, it's way too late to change this for VDR 1.2.0, so we'll have
to live with it for the moment. I'll add a note in the INSTALL file
that warns the user _not_ to use NPTL or set the variable you mentioned.

Klaus
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