[Asterisk-Dev] init.d/asterisk

[MF Hulber]

Thanks to both of you.  I'll leave it as is.

MARK.

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> 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).
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