From: Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>,
       David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>,
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Subject: Re: [Question] LinuxThreads, setuid - Is there user mode hook?
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 01:31:15 +0000
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On Friday 23 December 2005 20:33, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Applications have to run on existing platforms and work with existing
> software, as I'm sure you know.  If someone anywhere in the food chain
> isn't ready for NPTL, a project can easily be stuck with LT for another
> few years.

Not sure about NPTL support in non-Linux-based operating systems (Solaris, 
BSD, etc), but I'd be surprised if they supported LinuxThreads. Thus, 
shouldn't NPTL really result in a *more* portable application?
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