posix threading plans

[rafael2k]

Em Domingo 06 Maio 2007 08:20, Mike Frysinger escreveu:
> first, the status of linuxthreads ... when i first introduced the latest
> version of linuxthreads, the upstream status was fully maintained and no
> plans for this to end ... nptl wasnt even being considered.  the idea was
> that the version of linuxthreads we had in our tree was pretty outdated and
> lacked fixes and features, so getting up to latest version was a good idea.
> all of these factors have changed significantly, so i'd like to simply cut
> the charades and do:
>  - punt linuxthreads
>  - rename linuxthreads.old back to just linuxthreads
> any qualms ?  anyone see any value in getting linuxthreads more properly
> working ?  only thing i can think of here that would be critical is newer
> ports and ports with opposite stack direction (like hppa) ... personally,
> i'd like to see linuxthreads go into maintenance only so we can all focus
> on NPTL ... but i'm a purely "looking forward" guy ...

thats nice! 
but one thing I'd really like to ask for is to not remove linuxthreads at all 
(nor in any near future), just like glibc did in 2.5 - so, w/ no linuxthreads 
support, no kernel 2.4 support, wich is very important for old pcs (486s)...

thanx for all work!!!
rafael diniz

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