[uClibc]clone system call?

[Manuel Novoa III]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:55:22PM -0700, Shane Nay wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2001 11:46, Manuel Novoa III wrote:
> > Steve,
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:15:15AM -0700, Steve Thayer wrote:
> > > Is anybody working on this?  I tried putting clone.S back into
> >
> > Looks like your it.  ;-)
> >
> > Personally, I don't need thread support in uClibc.  I wonder how many
> > people do?
> 
> I wonder how many people need sigsetjump..., oh, wait, I needed it the other 
> day with ash.  Anyway, threads are certainly a better thing to use on a small 
> device since they can share memory between them more easily than say two 
> seperate processes.  What I'm driving at is..., you don't need them, 
> established, but if someone should come up with an implementation, I think it 
> should be accepted.  (Or do like glibc..., unpackage your good old 
> linuxthreads and --enable them, that seems pretty reasonable)  Though I'm 
> totally being a bit hypocritcal as I made the same argument when someone 
> asked me to fix the threads in glibc2.0.7 for mips :).

Sorry if I wasn't clear.  I wasn't saying I was against thread support
for uClibc.  I was saying that I (personally) don't need it and hence
am not very interested in working on it.  Also, if thread support is
added then it should be a Config option.

Manuel