On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:46:23AM -0400, Simon Perreault wrote: > Hi, > > Currently Asterisk's main() does something like this: > > ast_event_init(...); /* create event thread */ > daemon(0,0); /* fork */ > pthread_init(...); /* create other misc. threads */ > > This causes Asterisk to not work on FreeBSD. It's a well known bug [1].
Strange. On my FreeBSD 6.2-stable Asterisk works just well: cccc*CLI> show version Asterisk 1.4.11 built by root @ <censored> on a i386 running FreeBSD on 2007-09-11 13:37:14 UTC Compiled and installed in a standard way through FreeBSD ports collection, /usr/ports/net/asterisk. Well, port contains some patches against asterisk, but not one you proposing.. PS: looks like modern FreeBSD allows threads to fork - fork used not only within initial 'daemonizing', but also within at least music-on-hold and AGI applications. And I running both and have no problems with.. _______________________________________________ Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-dev mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
