Re: Bug#579373: ITP: zthreads -- A platform-independent, multi-threading and synchronization library for C++
On 2010-04-29, Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml@free.fr> wrote:
> On 29/04/2010 11:13, Cleto Martin Angelina wrote:
>>> Especially if it is not compatible with glibc and all other libraries (ie if
>>> it does not provide the current libpthread ABI). [I did not check if this is
>>> the case or not]
>> I don't know what I should to do for checking that issue in the
>> library (please, explain me how I can do it).
> If the zthread library does not provide the libpthread ABI (ie cannot be
> used instead of the libpthread from the system with LD_PRELOAD for example),
> then any threaded program using zthread library will need to serialize
> all its calls to any other library (including the glibc) [or the other
> libraries will need to be recompiled against the zthread library instead
> of the libpthread]. There still can be use cases (computations without
> libc I/O) but it wont be useful for common threaded programming.
Who said that libpthread will be replaced? I read it that it interfaces with
libpthread, i.e. it wraps it.
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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