POSIX Threads Compliance in LSB Test Suite
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Howell, David P wrote:
> Would it make sense to just post this to lsb-discuss?
Yes, I think it would. People need to see that it is important that the
differences with POSIX continue to be eliminated. I suspect that there are
some
that are satisfied with the current state of threads as fixing them is
difficult.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Howell, David P
> > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 2:25 PM
> > To: 'Stuart Anderson'
> > Cc: Smith, Stanley W
> > Subject: Howdy and LB Posix Threads questions
> >
> > Stuart,
> >
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> >
> > A question has come up here regarding the POSIX threads interfaces that
> > LSB is endorsing. It's
> > common knowledge that the LinuxThreads implementation that currently is
> > the defacto standard
> > is broken WRT POSIX in several areas, mostly due to the implementation
on
> > top of the Linux
> > kernel clone() implementation. Knowing that there are problems, is LSB
> > taking the approach that
> > they are a) testing for POSIX threads compliance and then allowing
> > implementations to get waivers
> > (not sure that this is the process, it used to be back in the MP-RAS
XOpen
> > test days), or b) taking
> > the tests and creating compliant versions that match the LinuxThreads
> > implementation.
> >
> > We are hoping for the former, as this approach will keep the issues
before
> > the community until
> > there are better solutions found for true conformance with other Unixes
> > that do POSIX threads right.
> > For the industry that we are going after POSIX compliance is important,
> > and we would want to see
> > full compliance still be the goal for the Linux standard base.
> >
> > If you're not the driver for this issue in the LSB, feel free to give me
a
> > pointer to whoever is. I'll keep
> > you in the loop as we investigate this.
> >
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> >
> > Regards,
> > Dave Howell
> >
> > David Howell
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> >
>
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