[uClibc]pthreads porting effort

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Jun 11, 2001 at 10:53:02AM -0700, Steve Thayer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 	I'm working on porting pthreads to work with uClibc.  I figured I'd
> post my plans here and see what you all think.  For my needs, I require
> either Linuxthreads or MIT pthreads.  Since Linuxthreads seems to be the de
> facto standard for linux, I think it is probably the way to go.  Let me know
> if you have a differing opinion. ;-)  I'd like to follow the glibc model,
> and include it in with uClibc.  So I'm basically going to rip it out of
> glibc (not a trivial task, since it's integrated pretty well) and integrate
> it into uClibc.  There will be a libpthread directory containing the code,
> and you can optionally build it just like the other libraries.  I'm planning
> to start with Linuxthreads version 2.1.3 (the one that comes with glibc
> 2.1.3) since many of uClibc's header files come from 2.1.3.  I'd like this
> work to be as useful as possible to others, so let me know if this all
> sounds like a good plan.  Your input is appreciated.

Linuxthreads works, but there have been a number of complaints
about it and its POSIX compliance.  You might also want to check
out Next Generation POSIX Threads.
    http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/pthreads/

 -Erik

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