Re: new in 2005-7-9 glibc: no more LinuxThreads

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On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 17:18 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "NM" == Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> NM> And the answer to that question is: no, there isn't any way,
> NM> besides noticing that something dies/behaves erratically/etc. with
> NM> NPTL but not with LinuxThreads.
> 
> I guess I just didn't understand the nature of the issue.  Is the
> situation simply that LinuxThreads and NPTL have the same API but
> subtly different semantics?

NPTL is not bug-for-bug compatible with LinuxThreads. Some brain damaged
apps depend on LinuxThreads bugs.

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Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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