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

[Bob Ham]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 04:54 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
> Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 21:11 +0200, Nedko Arnaudov wrote:
> >> Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh> 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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Bob Ham <rah at bash.sh>