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From: Helen B. <he...@tp...> - 2004-06-16 08:20:31
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At 10:10 AM 16/06/2004 +0400, Alex Peshkov wrote: >Alan McDonald wrote: > >>sorry but what are nptl builds? >> >Native Posix Threads Library. Used in RH9, Fedora, may be some else distros. >It gives much better threads support (M:N, futex, etc.), and was designed >to be fully backward compatible with old libpthread. Unfortunately, >backward compatibility is not OK - fb1.5, built w/o NPTL support, crashes >sporadically on NPTL-enabled systems. Built from that same sources on >system with native NPTL (I use RH9) appears to work fine. > >BTW, Paul & others - shouldn't we add README to prerelease area? Yes, Alex. Send me notes on the private release channel and I'll do a readme. If possible, would you enumerate the first distros of each of the main Linux brands that used the NPTL? (Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake, SusE) thks Helen |