Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263775AbTETPx4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 11:53:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263825AbTETPx4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 11:53:56 -0400 Received: from mx2.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:60334 "HELO mx2.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263775AbTETPxz (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 11:53:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 18:02:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: Ingo Molnar To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Rusty Russell , Ulrich Drepper , Linus Torvalds , Subject: Re: [patch] futex patches, futex-2.5.69-A2 In-Reply-To: <20030520150826.A18282@infradead.org> 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: 843 Lines: 21 On Tue, 20 May 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > you dont understand, do you? There are very valid and perfectly working > > glibc installations [and maybe NGPT installations, futex users, etc.] out > > there that will break if you remove sys_futex(). No amount of rpm hacking > > will fix them up. > > And they'll break if you run _any_ released stable kernel, so what? you havent ever used Ulrich's nptl-enabled glibc, have you? It will boot on any 2.4.1+ kernel, with and without nptl/tls support. It switches the threading implementation depending on the kernel features it detects. Ingo - 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/