[LUAU] the real 2.2.0

bbraun at sparcy.synack.net bbraun at sparcy.synack.net
Tue Jan 26 13:43:59 PST 1999


On Tuesday, Jan 1999 at 10:57:53 Chris Wong wrote: 
 | 
 | nod... Unforunately... like Glibc 2.2 is the way to go. Perhaps later
 | 2.2.x iterations will cut down on some of the bloat (dubious). 
 | 
 | On another note... I understand that glibc2 comes with threading support.
 | Specifically a hacked version of LinuxThreads. Which isn't completely
 | POSIX compliant due to signal handling.
 | 
 | 2.1.x had support for real kernel level threads... is there a package for
 | this yet?

 My understanding is that threads are only partially implemented in  
 the kernel with the clone() system call(like fork() but different).
 I think some of the glibc2.1 actually implements threads like this, but 
 I'm not sure.

 Rob



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