[nas] NAS 1.4.2d (devel) is available

[Jon Trulson]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Dave Richards wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:23:33 -0500
> From: Dave Richards <drichard at largo.com>
> To: nas at radscan.com
> Subject: Re: [nas] NAS 1.4.2d (devel) is available
> 
> FYI, 1.4.2d builds perfectly on RedHat 7.2 and runs fine on NCD Xterminals.
>  We are building a second machine to run our KDE sessions, and use NAS and
> Eriks redirection software to send KDE sounds to the Xterminals.  
> 

	I always appreciate feedback, good or bad ;-)  It's always nice to
know what coverage a development release is getting... KDE uses artsd
doesn't it?  How is that working now?  Erik had mentioned earlier that he
was having problems with it - it looked like a thread safety issue...

> Now, I'm going to try RealPlayer 9 beta again and see if that works. 
> Previously, that would hang the entire Xterminal.
> 

	Smells like an Xserver problem to me... NAS shouldn't be able hang
your machine, no matter how messed up it might become - especially a nas
client running on a remote machine ;-) Does it work if you don't use nas?

> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2001.11.30 12:11 Erik Inge Bolsø wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Jon Trulson wrote:
> > >	on http://radscan.com/nas.html
> > >
> > >	The big change is an attempt at threadsafety for libaudio.
> > >
> > >1.4.2d  11/25/2001
> > >
> > >	- implemented locking in libaudio via Xthread mutexes.  This
> > >is kind of a big change, but the result should be a threadsafe
> > >libaudio.  I used Xthreads, because then theoretically I shouldn't
> > >have to care about the system's actual thread implementation.  I've
> > >tested so far on Linux (uses pthread_*) and Unixware 2.03 (uses
> > >thr_*).  So far so good.  Let me know if you run into a problem,
> > >but you probably never will. ;-)
> > 
> > Woohoo! Thanks for this one, Jon, now I'm completely unable to make xmms
> > hang when I use it with libaudiooss, even the "trash volume from left to
> > right and back very fast" test that trivially crashed things earlier
> > work now :)
> > 
> > --
> > Erik I. Bolsø | email: <knan at mo.himolde.no>
> > The UNIX philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to
> > hang yourself.  And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.
> > 
> 

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