Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc2-mm3-V0.7.31-19

Jack O'Quin
2004-12-02T16:26:45Z

> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 07:46:20 -0800
> Andrew Burgess <aab@cichlid.com> wrote:
> > On further thought, I suppose libjack could install a SIGUSR2 handler and
> > have that call abort for all the rt client threads. Still no client mods
> > needed, only an RT-aware libjack.

Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas@gmx.net> writes:
> right. Or instead of aborting jackd might print a debug output (like
> "client foo violated RT constraints").

Libjack cannot assume the client has no SIGUSR2 handler of its own.

> > A big thank you to Ingo and everyone else involved on behalf of all the
> > linux audio users!

thanks++ :-)

> BTW: i suppose pretty much every jack client except for very simple ones
> do break the RT constraints.

True.

It would be wonderful to have a reliable mechanism for debugging them.
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joq