Re: and now ?

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:34:52PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> > The plan is that the glibc ABI should be the same on Hurd and Linux
> > (on each hardware platform).
> 
> [...]
> 
> > But we're not there yet, as far as I know.
> 
> One word:  pthreads.
> 
> I believe that is the missing bit.

Hrmm..  ABI compatible pthreads.  I haven't gone through and compared
linuxthreads to the spec.  I know it used to be almost-compliant.

We also need to change to using libio in glibc, which requires a whole
bunch of work in the exec server.  I don't know the difficulty level
of this change.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey