On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 09:44:24AM -0400, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
On 27 Jun 2003 08:11:41 -0500 Paul Varner
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.
Not exactly. WINE does not use a thread library usually, it implements its own threading and supplies some pthread functionality. Up to some months ago it was using a hidden feature of glibc, which was removed by glibc 2.3. It was fixed in newer WINEs. WineX has similar problems and they probably need to be fixed there too. Ciao, Marcus