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

[Christian Weisgerber]

Kenneth Arnold <ken at arnoldnet.net> wrote:

> > (Can non-preemptive threads even be used for what you have in mind?)
> Nope;

Which raises the question whether preemptive scheduling is actually
a requirement for POSIX threads. <Sigh> Anybody want to recommend
a good reference on pthreads?

> So what _do_ you use for threads on BSD?

Native pthreads, or optionally one of various third party thread
packages depending on flavor/platform (GNU Pth, LinuxThreads port,
etc).

> 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...

clone() isn't the problem, the userland thread package is.  Also,
discussions how to improve the BSD base system are a tad off topic
here.

FWIW, it would be nice if some other people != Linux/i386 had some
opinions on the topic.

I'm not saying I'm against threads.
I'm not saying it won't work.
But what are you prepared to do when I report that it dumps core?


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

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