From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mike Frysinger" Subject: Re: Threading in linux Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:51:47 -0400 Message-ID: <8bd0f97a0704240351o6015dc5fp95b18cb288267887@mail.gmail.com> References: <7783925d0704232338h52bc1180i435a880b267ca0f3@mail.gmail.com> <8bd0f97a0704240308g6428f153n3bf4a2ae5518398a@mail.gmail.com> <7783925d0704240336i49e918dcm4d38e9bbc0310a39@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gA6FeSu4GUQgGoS6g6u3FkRPNu3KK6nhqTgW5aaa2B6XGnSd0Vuyh0JIdtubTbcHqCFS24aTeRA/WSwsD823oCruvL36z6aEb5qEIFza1PY/YhpRA0z4f77cWYViNjWwGuPVhZGwsuBPRlK8LlV7cHK/WKhN724IB9BMBketrVE= In-Reply-To: <7783925d0704240336i49e918dcm4d38e9bbc0310a39@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Rick Brown Cc: kernelnewbies , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On 4/24/07, Rick Brown wrote: > > > NPTL on 2.4? > > > > this can be done only if you backport the features from 2.6 that were > > added in order to make NPTL possible ... redhat has done this, but > > really it's just a waste of time ... 2.4 is dead :P > > Could you hint upon the kernel features required for NPTL? May be a link? i couldnt really guess. your only safe bet is to go get a redhat kernel. i think it's a waste either way, but that's me. > > > pthreads on 2.6? > > > > i really have no idea what you mean by this ... "pthreads" is short > > for "POSIX threads" and there's no such thing as "pthreads" with > > respect to a specific code base. NPTL is one implementation of the > > POSIX threads specification while LinuxThreads is another. > > Sorry ... I meant LinuxThreads. linuxthreads works fine on 2.6 ... linux has forward binary compatibility, thus things that work in 2.4 (like linuxthreads) continue to work in 2.6 -mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs