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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