Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

[Martin Kittel <debian@martin-kittel.de>]

Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> What is the problem with linuxthread?  Are there some problems
> linuxthreads cause that go away when using NPTL?
Upstream is switching to NPTL for performance reasons and because it 
allows them to clean up a lot of their threading code. Currently there 
is still support for linuxthread on i386, but it is likely to go away in 
one of the next releases.


> Anyway, the package currently only supports i386, so I don't see
> a problem with using linuxthread for now.  Please make sure that
> you then atleast prevent it from using NPTL.
That is what I am doing already. Apart from that, I am working on 
packages for amd64 and ia64. If everything works out, I should have the 
first version in sid within the next couple of weeks.

Martin.