[Mplayer-dev-eng] release 0.18...

[Nick Kurshev]

Hello!

On Sat, 5 May 2001 16:59:39 +0200 (CEST), Arpi wrote:

>> >> (if it's truth that mplayer runs several processes on separate cpus)
>> >not true. it runs in only one process/thread now.
>> >
>> Then I dont know! If mplayer consist from one process without threads which can be run
>> on other cpus - there must be no difference between uni- and multi- processor systems.
>> In this case problem is not in mplayer but outside.
>> But I think you are wrong.
>> Please look at line # 61 of codecctrl.c:
>>       if((child_pid=fork())==0){
>It's the old code. Not used in the current version.
>
Then may be better to move out it to SHIT subdir?

>> IMHO fork creates process which can be run on any cpu by kernel opinion.
>> and it placed in mpeg_codec_controller :(
>> But seems that this function never called. Sorry if I'm wrong.
>Somewhere in mplayer.c there is some #ifdef-s to enable old fork() code,
>but as latest changes wasn't applied to that code, it may be broken.
>
I've found only one file with one fork...

Best regards! Nick


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