Re: Replacing linuxthreads with NGPT in Gentoo Linux

Peter Waechtler schrieb:
> 
> Am Sonntag den, 29. September 2002, um 20:59, schrieb Martin Schlemmer:
> 
> > I and some others have tried to replace linuxthreads with NGPT
> > fairly early, and then only compiling against NGPT.
> >
> > I will have the NGPT setup running on my box for a week or two
> > depending on response, but if none is accuired, I will be forced
> > to do a clean install as currently many things that is a must
> > on a desktop box do not work (XMMS, MPlayer, gliv, etc) :(
> 
> I think it would be good for ngpt to get xmms (mp3 player) going.
> 
> xmms can make use of _lots_ of plugins that are dlopen()ed on startup.
> I got xmms running on SMP when removing most of plugins - because on SMP
> the initialization runs amok? (see below)
> Everything works until I define MAXNATIVETHREADS=1 on SMP - then
> it get stuck like on UP (there it makes _little_ progress).
> Seems that there's a problem with ngpt not being preemptive.
> 

After some digging: is ngpt able to be used in X11 apps?
What is happening within the X event loop? The process just blocks
waiting for some X events...

Do I have to specify for using at least two native threads?
How to do that?