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Re: Anybody used Linux libc support for pthreads?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Provenzano)
Mon Feb 19 20:51:02 1996
To: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
Cc: pthreads@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Feb 1996 11:10:41 PST."
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 20:22:52 EST
From: Christopher Provenzano <proven@MIT.EDU>
The last time I communicated with HJ he was planning on making the Linux
C library thread safe and take and distributing a release of pthreads
with it. Eventually I would make a compile option for pthreads to only
compile the thread routines that would be a drop in replacement for the
pthread library supplied. This way the Linux C library and pthreads
could continue development separately. (Similar work is also underway
for NetBSD and FreeBSD.)
My distribution of pthreads will continue to ship a different variant of
a thread safe C library based on the BSD C library. There are some
differences between the two C libraries so you should pick one and stick
with it and know what the differences are. The biggest one I know of is
how we deal with routines that have static data. I supply routines
that use thread specific data and new _r variants whereas HJ only supplies
the _r variants.
CAP
