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* When will CLONE_THREAD be available in a thread package?
@ 2002-01-21 22:07 george anzinger
  2002-01-22 23:47 ` dank
  2002-01-27 20:56 ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: george anzinger @ 2002-01-21 22:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

A bit off topic, but....

CLONE_THREAD has been in the kernel for a bit, but is their a threads
package for user land that uses it?  If not when?
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* Re: When will CLONE_THREAD be available in a thread package?
  2002-01-21 22:07 When will CLONE_THREAD be available in a thread package? george anzinger
@ 2002-01-22 23:47 ` dank
  2002-01-27 20:56 ` Alan Cox
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: dank @ 2002-01-22 23:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

In article <3C4C9122.384C675C@mvista.com> you wrote:
> A bit off topic, but....

> CLONE_THREAD has been in the kernel for a bit, but is their a threads
> package for user land that uses it?  If not when?

look at ibm's next-generation posix threading:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/pthreads/

i've been keeping up patches (most recent:  2.4.16) at:
http://gtf.org/~dank/ngpt/

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* Re: When will CLONE_THREAD be available in a thread package?
  2002-01-21 22:07 When will CLONE_THREAD be available in a thread package? george anzinger
  2002-01-22 23:47 ` dank
@ 2002-01-27 20:56 ` Alan Cox
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2002-01-27 20:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: george anzinger; +Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

> A bit off topic, but....
> 
> CLONE_THREAD has been in the kernel for a bit, but is their a threads
> package for user land that uses it?  If not when?

Right at the moment nothing uses it - and its rather useless. I've been going
over the small version of the ibm patches which do finally seem to offer a
way to get the signal behaviour for posix thread crap right without punishing
sane programming.



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