Subject: Re: [Question] LinuxThreads, setuid - Is there user mode hook?
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>, David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>,
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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:36:37 -0500
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On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 15:21 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 02:08:58PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > Why on earth would you use LinuxThreads rather than NPTL?  LinuxThreads
> > is obsolete and was never remotely POSIX compliant.
> 
> You have the strangest ideas of obsolete.  NPTL has only been usable
> for two years.  Software lifecycles can be a lot longer than that.
> 

I'm not telling you to stop supporting legacy apps, I'm just saying it's
insane to start a project now and target LinuxThreads rather than NPTL
which is what it sounded like the OP was doing.

Lee

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