Threading libraries

Hasso Tepper hasso at estpak.ee
Sat Dec 13 13:44:23 PST 2008


Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> What would this mean for the 2.2 release?

It would be OK, but ... I'm concerned about the fact that features 
specific to libthread_xu (for example barriers) haven't got any testing 
so far, but these will be used by third-party apps if libc_r will be 
removed. I don't feel comfortable doing this move so close to release, so 
I'd prefer post 2.2 move.

> Would people who had been upgrading from pre-xu versions need to 
> recompile everything, including pkgsrc apps?

This isn't acceptable IMHO. libpthread.so wrapper should stay.


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Hasso Tepper





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