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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:45:43 -0700
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
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To: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
CC: Christopher Hoover <ch@murgatroid.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional
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Ingo Oeser wrote:

> Is this also the case, if I don't want threading at all on my
> system? Does glibc still have a seperate static library for this,

This has nothing to do with static linking or not.

glibc, when compiled with nptl, will always include uses of futexes.
But since there is no contention and the fast path is entirely handled
at userlevel, the actual kernel functionality is not required.

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