Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:53:49 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1 |
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Unless major flaws in the design are found this code is intended to > > become the standard POSIX thread library on Linux system and it will > > be included in the GNU C library distribution. > >... > > - - requires a kernel with the threading capabilities of Linux 2.5.36. > >... > > My personal estimation is that Debian will support kernel 2.4 in it's > stable distribution until 2006 or 2007 (this is based on the experience > that Debian usually supports two stable kernel series and the time > between stable releases of Debian is > 1 year). What is the proposed way > for distributions to deal with this?
Ulrich will give a fuller reply i guess, but the new threading code in 2.5 does not disable (or in any way obsolete) the old glibc threading library. So by doing boot-time kernel version checks glibc can decide whether it wants to provide the new library or the old library.
Ingo
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