On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:34:05 +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:26:55PM +0300, Jusa Saari wrote: >> What happens if the watchdog gets stuck too ? It has to synchronize with >> the watched thread sometimes to do its work, AFAIK. > > It just reads a variable. An int. Without synchronization.
I hope that's a "volatile" variable ? >> Besides, when the node gets restarted, all pending requests are lost, >> aren't they ? That means that constant rebstarts can't be good for >> network health. They are likely to break at least some client >> applications, too. > > True, but as long as it's relatively rare that's ok. Well, better make sure that the FUQID replacement can reconnect, at least. >> >> Besides, can't 64-bit Linux run 32-bit programs, if the correct >> >> libraries are installed ? >> > >> > That's an awful lot of work for the user... >> >> I'm pretty certain that most 64-bit distros have 32-bit libraries >> installed by default, since to do otherwise would make them completely >> unable to use any program for which source code is not available, or >> whose author made unwarranted assumptions about pointer size. > > Well sure but 32-bit wine? 64-bit Wine can't run 32-bit Windows applications, only 64-bit ones - or at least "configure --help" claims so. If you were a distro maintainer, which one would you pick ?-) _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
