This is the mail archive of the libc-ports@sources.redhat.com mailing list for the libc-ports project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: User threads in Linux glibc port


On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 12:04:06PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:59:33AM -0500, David Lie wrote:
> > 
> > Hello:
> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone knows of a POSIX-compliant user-level 
> > threading library that can be used with one of the more recent versions 
> > of glibc.
> 
> As far as I know NGPT has not worked in several years, leaving
> LinuxThreads (not very POSIX) and NPTL as the only substantial games
> in town.  I don't know how well GNU pth works; you might want to try
> that.

Quite some time ago, we tried using GNU pth as the pthread library for
GNU/kFreeBSD.  Most stuff works, but when you get to apps using a wider
variety of thread features (like, say, GNOME), it turns out that some don't
work, and some are not present at all.

-- 
Robert Millan


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]