[vdr] Re: NPTL progress ?

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> Gregoire Favre wrote:
> > what's the current nptl state of vdr ?
> 
> Since the SuSE 9.1 (kernel 2.6) installation I have here
> apparently doesn't use NPTL, I can't test that.

Do you have a i586? On 9.1 only the i686 glibc has NPTL support.

> Maybe my recent work on buffer optimizations has changed something
> in that area, too. After all, I got rid of several usleep() calls,
> which IIRC were supposed to cause problems with NPTL.

Yes but that was only part of the problem. There are more changes
necessary to make vdr (1.2.6) fully work with NPTL, see the patches
in this thread:
http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/vdr/2004/06-2004/msg00546.html

cu
Ludwig

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