On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 10:20 AM, tim Rowledge <tim@rowledge.org> wrote:

On 11-04-2014, at 9:02 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:
> Noe that the itemer/signal based heartbeat should be viewed as the heartbeat of last resort :-).  It has bad effects when integrating with external code, interrupting system calls etc.  Unless this external code is written to cope with interrupted calls that can't be restarted such as poll or select, the heartbeat needs to be disabled around calls to the external code.
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Err, so maybe this is the cause of ALSA sound problems on the Pi with the stackVM? Damn.

Could be.

 

tim
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Eliot