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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>,
	David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Question] LinuxThreads, setuid - Is there user mode hook?
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:36:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1135370197.22177.40.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051223202105.GA32321@nevyn.them.org>

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 15:21 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 02:08:58PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > Why on earth would you use LinuxThreads rather than NPTL?  LinuxThreads
> > is obsolete and was never remotely POSIX compliant.
> 
> You have the strangest ideas of obsolete.  NPTL has only been usable
> for two years.  Software lifecycles can be a lot longer than that.
> 

I'm not telling you to stop supporting legacy apps, I'm just saying it's
insane to start a project now and target LinuxThreads rather than NPTL
which is what it sounded like the OP was doing.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-23 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200512222312.jBMNCj96018554@taverner.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
2005-12-23  9:51 ` [Question] LinuxThreads, setuid - Is there user mode hook? Alon Bar-Lev
2005-12-23 19:08   ` Lee Revell
2005-12-23 20:21     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-23 20:36       ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-12-23 20:33         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-24 16:16           ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-12-25  1:31           ` Luke-Jr
2005-12-25  8:05             ` Alon Bar-Lev
     [not found] <5mRSA-6ss-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <5n1S5-9P-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <5n1S5-9P-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <5nt1F-5aZ-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-12-27  2:33       ` Robert Hancock
     [not found] <200512231927.jBNJR2uG019083@taverner.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
2005-12-24 16:18 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-12-22 15:47 Alon Bar-Lev

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