Re: [LAD] Summercode 2008: LASH as a D-Bus service

From: Bob Ham <rah@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Jan 24 2008 - 10:34:14 EET

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 04:54 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
> Bob Ham <rah@email-addr-hidden> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 21:11 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
> >> Bob Ham <rah@email-addr-hidden> writes:
> >>
> >> > More generally, LASH isn't a frontend for JACK.
> >>
> >> What about the jack watchdog? What does get killed by it?
> >
> > A good example. What does the watchdog do, exactly? It isn't a
> > frontend. I doesn't try to work around jackd's crashing. It just
> > ensures that if something bad does happen, the computer as a whole isn't
> > brought down. This is massively different from what you're proposing.
> >
> > To try and work around a crash in jackd and present a system to the user
> > where crashes make no difference is to invite more problems. If you
> > can't get jackd to stay up, what makes you think you can get your new
> > system to stay up?
>
> static void *
> jack_watchdog_thread (void *arg)
> {

I'm not sure what the point of posting this function is. It doesn't
contradict anything I said.

Bob

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