Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27 Jun 2003 08:11:41 -0500
Paul Varner <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What I was able to determine is that the pthread library that Winex
> wants to use from the glibc is the NPTL (Native Posix Thread Library)
> that is currently being developed at Redhat.

So Redhat is not using kernel threads after all. You can get NPTL here:

http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nptl/

> So my take isn't that the glibc in SuSE is somewhat broken, it is that
> the glibc in Redhat is somewhat experimental and possibly buggy and
> instable.

OK, so they want you to use a non-standard library then turn around and
call your distro broken if it doesn't use it- this make no sense.

Charles

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