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Re: glibc 2.3.2 and threads (fwd)
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- To: Yaroslav Popovitch <yp at sot dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 20:08:40 +0200
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.3.2 and threads (fwd)
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304082038520.21923-100000@ares.sot.com>
Yaroslav Popovitch <yp at sot dot com> writes:
> Hi! I was checking glibc-2.3.2 source tree and did not found linuxthreads
> directory. As I understood it is separate package now.
linuxthreads was always a separate tarball that needed to be
downloaded.
> I heard that development of NGPTL is stopped and it should be replaced by
> NPTL it. Is NPTL included in glibc-2.3.2?
No, NPTL is not included in any released glibc version yet.
> Also as I understood NPTL must be supported by kernel.
Both NGPT and NPTL need kernel support. The support is in the latest
Linux 2.5.x kernels,
Andreas
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