On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:59:56PM +0300, Jusa Saari wrote:
> 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 ?

Is that necessary?
> 
> >> 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 ?-)
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