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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] NPTL
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:30:56 +0200

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:25:18PM +0200, M.L. wrote:
> On Samedi 14 Juin 2003 22:11, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > Hi All!
> >
> > RH9 has this NPTL thing (http://freshmeat.net/projects/nptl/), do we
> > want/need it? Sounds good but I know there're compatibility issues, right?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Sergey.
>
> Hi Sergey,
>
> why should we need this ? more posix compliancy ?

Afaik, the NPTL is a replacemant for the posix threads (pthread) library
that is faster, there are some compatibility problems though, especially
with binary software.

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