Everyone, This is a more general question, and if anyone knows of a more specialized list this should be posted to, I'd be happy to do so...
Small picture of hardware: DENX Linux 2.4.25 / PowerPC MPC8280 / 32 MBs of RAM I am using QT Embedded for a small GUI that does BSD sockets, also using DENX's SM501 video driver. Everything is quite stable, recently I added a additional process to the application using fork() for the listening 'accept' call for the sockets. After many tests I decided that due to the nature of the fork() command and the GUI half of the program, that this was a large waste of memory, as I was duplicating the entire GUI system. So I started looking alternatives, and have landed at the 'pthread' library. However, now I have lots of segmentation faults, particularly when I send a message using QT's postEvent commands back to the main thread. I was curious if anyone had any better idea of a more stable or perhaps a suggestion on why I am able to only get about 30 seconds of run time out of the app using pthread, verses fork() seems to be much stabler. -Russ
