[vorbis-dev] Re: Possible fix for bug #14 (ogg123 -b memory leak)

[Christian Weisgerber]

Kenneth Arnold <ken at arnoldnet.net> wrote:

> Seeing Jack's reply to this, and not having any BSD handy to look at
> things on, I'll have to let you two argue on that subject.

There's nothing to argue about.  I merely pointed out that threads
are problematical for portability.  Although people can always fall
back on GNU Pth, I guess.  (Can non-preemptive threads even be used
for what you have in mind?)

> But shouldn't a working pthreads be generally a prerequisite for
> the Linux emulation layer that the BSDs tout?

There's a world of difference between a pthreads userland
implementation, and emulating enough of the Linux clone() system
call to support the Linux userland implementation.

As I mentioned before, I don't know whether the problems that show
up are caused by buggy pthreads implementations, or by people
confusing Linux implementation details with standards, or both.
Well, we'll see.


-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de

--- >8 ----
List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-dev-request at xiph.org'
containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.