[Asterisk-Dev] init.d/asterisk

[Kevin P. Fleming]

MF Hulber wrote:
> Thanks for the wise-xxx answer.  I knew enough to look into that file 
> and see what was there.  I also know that there are a lot of remnants of 
> 2.4 specific code laying around and it might not be necessary to have 
> this statement in a 2.6 kernel.  Since this lives in a buildable 
> configuration file it is a development question, not a user question.

No, it's not a dev question. extensions.conf is also a "buildable 
configuration file", but we don't deal with those issues here either.

> Since you probably know, what is one condition in which this variable 
> should be changed?

I cannot say, because I don't use that init script at all, and have 
never run Asterisk using anything other than the default threading model 
on whatever system it was running on (both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel based 
systems).

However, I can envision scenarios where Asterisk itself was built 
against the NPTL libraries, but it is using modules built against 
LinuxThread libraries (maybe OpenSSL, or database drivers, etc). While 
these are very close to compatible, they are not completely compatible, 
and code written/compiled for LinuxThreads must be run in a LinuxThreads 
environment or it will not work properly (the reverse is not true, 
though, NPTL-based code will work in either environment, pretty much).