[Asterisk-Dev] init.d/asterisk

[MF Hulber]

I'm over it.  I spend plenty of time Googling various aspect of 
Asterisk.  I figured a developer might have an idea whether or not this 
was still an appropriate setting for a 2.6 kernel.  If it was a problem 
it would have likely failed miserably by now.

MARK.

Steve Kann wrote:

> Brian Cuthie wrote:
>
>> Seems kind of unfair to bash Mark for asking here when you guys aren't
>> even sure of what the answer is. This clearly isn't a -users question.
>>  
>>
> Personally, I would prefer to just ignore things like this, because it 
> is not sustainable for people to to just pick random lines of scripts, 
> and ask "hey should I change this line", without even doing a little 
> research into what the line is for.
>
> I think the big rule should be that if you haven't typed your request 
> into google first, and looked there, you deserve to get ignored (and 
> expect to be flamed) when you ask a question.
>
> For example, if you had typed LD_ASSUME_KERNEL into google, you'd end 
> up right at Ulrich Drepper's site, which would tell you all about how 
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL works, and how it basically switches thread 
> implementations, and what NPTL is, and why some programs may not work 
> well with it.
>
> THEN, after doing some research, at the very least, when the question 
> was posed, we'd all be able to have an intellegent discussion about 
> this, and whether or not, or what would need to be done to ensure that 
> asterisk was fully compatible with NPTL, and what impact that would 
> have on performance.
>
> As I recall, back from the pre-1.0 days, older asterisk versions would 
> crash with NPTL, as it's much less tolerant of sloppy / erroneous 
> programming than LinuxThreads; for example, with LinuxThreads, you 
> could do pthread_mutex_t t = -1; [...] pthread_destroy(&t); and get 
> away with it. With NPTL, you'd crash..
>
> -SteveK
>
>
>
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