[vdr] Re: Avoiding NPTL problems

[Lars von Wedel <vonwedel@web.de>]

I have experienced the problem as well and spent days of debugging my
code, but the problem was an NPTL-issue.

Thus, I'd definitely vote vor having a security check.

> I doubt it since that's already decided when vdr enters main(). vdr
> would need to exec itself after that. IMHO a better place for
> setting the variable would be the runvdr script anyway.
>  
Maybe the check could be factored out into a small binary which will set
the variable from within runvdr and issue a warning?

Lars