Threading in the future?

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Sun Nov 13 06:57:57 UTC 2005


On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:12:00AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> 
> Then I think we should make as less as possible modifications to the 
> FreeBSD kernel. That means that NPTL is not a good choice, except if it 
> is supported upstream for the linux compatibility layers. Then, about 
> the others threading methods kFreeBSD offers, I don't know which one in 
> the best one. We have to look at the changes that are need in the glibc 
> to support them, but AFAIK, glibc is not really portable on that point.

They also need work to build on Glibc, even as standalone libraries.  Like on
Glibc, the line separating libc and libpthread is not very clear.

-- 
Robert Millan



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