[PATCH 00/10] nptl: Complete libpthread removal

[H.J. Lu]

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 8:39 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> * H. J. Lu:
>
> > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 8:17 AM Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mai 20 2021, H.J. Lu wrote:
> >>
> >> > Can we ship a dummy linker script for libpthread.so to just
> >> > satisfy -lpthread at link-time?
> >>
> >> -lpthread will be satisfied by libpthread.a.
> >>
> >> Andreas.
> >>
> >
> > What is the problem then?  We have to keep libpthread.so.0 for existing
> > binaries.  We just don't link against it for new binaries.
>
> I was a bit creative and patched the dynamic loader not to load
> libpthread.so.0 ever (treating it as a reference to libc.so.6).  If we
> don't want to do that (and the consensus is moving in that direction),
> then we need to keep the DSO around as an actual file.

I think we should keep it as an actual DSO.


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H.J.