Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 05:49:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 05:49:20 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:39893 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 05:49:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:54:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Adrian Bunk X-X-Sender: bunk@mimas.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de To: Ulrich Drepper cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1 In-Reply-To: <3D8A6EC1.1010809@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1061 Lines: 33 On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote: >... > Unless major flaws in the design are found this code is intended to > become the standard POSIX thread library on Linux system and it will > be included in the GNU C library distribution. >... > - - requires a kernel with the threading capabilities of Linux 2.5.36. >... My personal estimation is that Debian will support kernel 2.4 in it's stable distribution until 2006 or 2007 (this is based on the experience that Debian usually supports two stable kernel series and the time between stable releases of Debian is > 1 year). What is the proposed way for distributions to deal with this? cu Adrian -- You only think this is a free country. Like the US the UK spends a lot of time explaining its a free country because its a police state. Alan Cox - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/