A bit off topic, but....
CLONE_THREAD has been in the kernel for a bit, but is their a threads
package for user land that uses it? If not when?
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> A bit off topic, but....
> CLONE_THREAD has been in the kernel for a bit, but is their a threads
> package for user land that uses it? If not when?
look at ibm's next-generation posix threading:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/pthreads/
i've been keeping up patches (most recent: 2.4.16) at:
http://gtf.org/~dank/ngpt/
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> A bit off topic, but....
>
> CLONE_THREAD has been in the kernel for a bit, but is their a threads
> package for user land that uses it? If not when?
Right at the moment nothing uses it - and its rather useless. I've been going
over the small version of the ibm patches which do finally seem to offer a
way to get the signal behaviour for posix thread crap right without punishing
sane programming.