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Re: User threads in Linux glibc port
- From: Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- Cc: David Lie <lie at eecg dot toronto dot edu>, libc-ports at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:00:00 +0100
- Subject: Re: User threads in Linux glibc port
- Organisation: free as in freedom
- References: <43F20C75.60409@eecg.toronto.edu> <20060214170406.GA26362@nevyn.them.org>
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 12:04:06PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:59:33AM -0500, David Lie wrote:
> >
> > Hello:
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone knows of a POSIX-compliant user-level
> > threading library that can be used with one of the more recent versions
> > of glibc.
>
> As far as I know NGPT has not worked in several years, leaving
> LinuxThreads (not very POSIX) and NPTL as the only substantial games
> in town. I don't know how well GNU pth works; you might want to try
> that.
Quite some time ago, we tried using GNU pth as the pthread library for
GNU/kFreeBSD. Most stuff works, but when you get to apps using a wider
variety of thread features (like, say, GNOME), it turns out that some don't
work, and some are not present at all.
--
Robert Millan