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

[Kenneth Arnold]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:50:29PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> 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?)

Nope; I can't force the Vorbis library calls to surrender control in
the middle of processing to get a chunk of audio out to the
device. There has to be two things going on at the same time.

> 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.

So what _do_ you use for threads on BSD? And clone(2), though
complex, doesn't seem overly compex that BSD couldn't provide a
suitable replacement for most of its uses from pthreads...


-- 
Kenneth Arnold <ken at arnoldnet.net> / kcarnold / Linux user #180115
http://arnoldnet.net/~kcarnold/



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