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Re: consistency in glibc add-on directory names?
- From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-ports at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 15:53:47 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: consistency in glibc add-on directory names?
- References: <20051003192842.488DB180E25@magilla.sf.frob.com>
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Roland McGrath wrote:
> There are no crypt or localedata add-ons for any current version.
> Those were long ago incorporated into glibc directly.
i noticed that.
> ... nptl is the preferred, supported, and current pthreads
> implementation for Linux 2.6 kernels. Linuxthreads is necessary to
> support Linux 2.4 kernels. In glibc 2.3.x, one should use whichever
> add-on matches one's desired kernel environment. For 2.4 and future
> releases, Daniel Jacobowitz has taken over Linuxthreads; it will be
> up to him how it is distributed and used.
so as long as i have no interest in supporting any 2.4.x kernels, i'm
safe to use exclusively NPTL, then? good.
rday