From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 4 3:19:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA20E14EE3 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 03:19:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.72]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA19FB; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:19:43 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA64560; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:18:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:18:55 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: shocking@prth.pgs.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, nordwick@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: I was accepted to LokiHack '99 at Atlanta Linux Showcase Message-ID: <19991004121855.M63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <199910040925.KAA05633@dhcp160-32.lndn.tensor.pgs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <199910040925.KAA05633@dhcp160-32.lndn.tensor.pgs.com> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On [19991004 11:42], Stephen Hocking (shocking@london.pgs.com) wrote: >I would like to point out that they use the SDL library for many of their >products. We have this in our ports section, but it does have a bug in that we >get a threads crash when doing sound & video simultaneously. The aliens demo >displays this fault rather well. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't, >there's something timing related. I suspect something needs to be protected by >a mutex somewhere. Do you mean pthreads? If so, we still do not have a pthread_cancel in our libc_r which could greatly make things harder to implement. I think OpenBSD has one and we might do well to look at that one. Now if we mean another threads implementation alltogether, than you can just ignore the above =) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message