On 4/11/06, Om Narasimhan <om.turyx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > > 7. is there another popular threads implementation in linux I should > > look at ? it's a jungle out there... > From Fedora 5 onwards pthreads are deprecated. NPTL support has been > in place for quite some time. Other distros may follow/ alread lead. > Maybe you should concentrate more on nptl. > I'd say that is a little inaccurate/misleading. The linuxthreads implementation may be deprecated and NPTL may be the new favorite, but both are still implementations of the POSIX threading API - pthreads. So, pthreads is not deprecated, just the old implementation of that API which has been replaced by a new and improved implementation. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
