[vdr] Re: Avoiding NPTL problems

[Nicolas Huillard <nhuillard@ghs.fr>]

Lars von Wedel wrote:

> 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?
The check must also be in vdr itself, as Klaus proposed it, because most 
first-time testing and/or debugging might be runnning directly vdr from 
the command-line (that's also how developpers would like bug reports to 
be documented, I think).

NH