New threaded application: develop against NPTL?

Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com
Thu Sep 11 19:27:00 GMT 2003


Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> I failed to mention that the app will also be having to deal with 
> signals, which seems to be a source of inconsistencies, if not outright 
> bugs, in LinuxThreads. Certainly the signal handling model in the NPTL 
> whitepaper makes more sense to me, anyway.

Ah, well, if you want anything like Posix-compliant
signal handling, you'll probably want NPTL.

> Well, the application is a fancy init/service-manager/etc. type of 
> thing, that if it works is going to replace SysVinit and/or simpleinit 
> on my systems. As such, I doubt if many RH9 users are going to be 
> interested in it :-)

2.6 and cvs glibc it is, then...
- Dan

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