Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1

Rusty Russell
2002-09-24T00:43:27Z

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:42:48 +0200 (CEST)
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 jlnance@intrex.net wrote:
> > Is this related to the thread library work that IBM was doing or was
> > this independently developed?
>
> independently developed.

And, ironically, using the futex implementation developed on IBM time 8).

Of course, the time I spent on futexes would have been completely wasted
without the 95% done by Ingo and Uli to reach normal user programs and
address the other scalability problems.

Thanks guys! IOU each a beer or local equiv...
Rusty.
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