Re: 2.2 projects

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>]

   Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:15:50 -0500
   From: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>

   Now it looks like 2.1 is in the can, we should start thinking about what we
   want to do for 2.2.  I already have a short list:

   ...

   - Thomas's pthreads rewrite

I'm working on this, using (parts of) Thomas's code.  The idea is to
make an implementation that works on the i386/Hurd, seperating out the
system independent and system dependent code such that it would be
easy to add support for other systems and architectures.

   and a longer one:

   - libio for Hurd (needs the new pthreads)

I'll probably do this when I've got working pthreads for the Hurd.

   - tighter namespace cleanliness in POSIX mode, XPG if possible

I thought we already did this mostly right.  Anyway we also might also
take this down to the level of symbol versioning.  I believe Roland
has gor some idea's about this.  What's defenitely needed is to split
out the very Linux specific symbols and introduce a versioning symbol
for them.

Mark