Eric Valette wrote:
Because Sarge supports NPTL when using 2.6 kernels, and that requires 2.6 headers to be useful. A number of other applications can take advantage of 2.6 features there now.NPTL is fine mostly for servers. But I guess a number of user mode driver for average people will also probably break right now because of API inconsistencies between 2.4 and 2.6 (raw 1394 or USB are expected). I start wondering if a 2.4 GLIBC and a 2.6 GLIBC should be envisaged?
Ooops. See thread about NPTL performances problem compared to linuxthread due to bad locking locking strategy.
<http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0311.0/0468.html> NB: apparently CVS NPTL is fixed but waht about debian libc :-) -- __ / ` Eric Valette /-- __ o _. 6 rue Paul Le Flem (___, / (_(_(__ 35740 Pace Tel: +33 (0)2 99 85 26 76 Fax: +33 (0)2 99 85 26 76 E-mail: eric.valette@free.fr