Re: Pitfalls & future development & stuff

[David Coquil <dcoquil@lisi.insa-lyon.fr>]

Bob Ham wrote :

> what's what now; from what I can tell, the pthread thing in glibc is
> GNU's POSIX thread implementation but I've also seen "LinuxThreads"
> bandied about.  Is that another term for glibc's pthreads or a seperate
> library or something to do with the kernel, or is it d) something else?
> 

LinuxThreads is indeed another name for GNU's pthreads. It started as an
independant project to implement the POSIX threads package for Linux and
was later integrated into glibc. I think that the original author has
now handled maintenance over the glibc people.

For these historical reasons it has kept its original name of
"LinuxThreads", thus confusing you.
David