Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on native Linux" | Date | 27 Aug 2000 16:27:29 -0700 |
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In article <200008261658.e7QGwhx04244@jupiter.cs.uml.edu>, Albert D. Cahalan <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> wrote: > >First of all, I dare not code it. Linus seems to want Linux not >strongly tied to the POSIX thread model. We have non-POSIX thread >libraries, sorry if you don't like it.
Stop this bandying my name about.
The only thing Linus wants is SANE SEMANTICS.
It so happens, that POSIX seems to be insane. Quite frankly, some of POSIX is utter crap. Cow-dung. In short, shit.
And the reason pthreads have some problems is because the stupid thing was never designed. It grew out of 1:m implementations and the Sun threading code.
I want to have pthreads support for Linux. But I do not want the crap in pthreads to get into the kernel. Which means that I want people to THINK before they code something up. A 1:1 pthreads implementation simply isn't going to make it, but something that happens to have the braindamaged pthreads stuff as a subcase (with some help from user space) is more than welcome.
This is not something new. I, unlike the POSIX committee, have more taste than willingness to get reamed up the ass by years of history.
Deal with it.
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