On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Nedko Arnaudov <nedko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Another question that comes to mind is: was Ardour running with a realtime >> priority too? Higher or lower prio than jack's? > > Ardour process has realtime thread(s) started by libjack. AFAICT, fork() is inherently unusable from any thread of a process with realtime threads. It locks the page tables and the process structure of the parent among other things. Anyone know if posix_spawn() is supported by any major distro's glibc? Apparently it was developed to solve this exact problem. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/posix_spawn.html Lee -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
