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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:40:30 +1000
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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       Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:42:48 +0200 (CEST)
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 jlnance@intrex.net wrote:
> > Is this related to the thread library work that IBM was doing or was
> > this independently developed?
> 
> independently developed.

And, ironically, using the futex implementation developed on IBM time 8).

Of course, the time I spent on futexes would have been completely wasted
without the 95% done by Ingo and Uli to reach normal user programs and
address the other scalability problems.

Thanks guys!  IOU each a beer or local equiv...
Rusty.
-- 
   there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too
   many doers quoting their contemporaries.  -- Larry McVoy
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