Re: [Valgrind-developers] 2008-02-15 03:15:05 GMT nightly build (alvis, i686, Red Hat 7.3)

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

On Sunday 24 February 2008 20:15, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Julian Seward <js...@ac...> wrote:
> > > > So what's the oldest commonly-used distro that supported NPTL?
> > >
> > > RH9 is pretty much the first distro to support it isn't it?
> >
> > Yes.  According to Ulrich Drepper "RHL9 was the first with NPTL and
> > it served as the basis for RHEL3".
> >
> > So I'm inclined to declare RHL9 as the new oldest-supported-distro
> > for the trunk, which means we can drop support for LinuxThreads,
> > gcc < 3.0, and stabs.
>
> As far as I know there are still RHEL3 setups running, and RHEL3 is
> based on the 2.4.21 Linux kernel. So how could RHEL3 include NPTL ?

Because the Red Hat crew backported a bunch of stuff from 2.6 into some
of the 2.4s they were distributing, and I think that included NPTL.  At
least -- that is my impression.

J