confirmed working NPTL revision?

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 12:28 +0200, Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 September 2008 01:23:37 Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
> >>> 1) How platform specific is it?
> >> Fully, TLS relocations are different from one arch to another.

[SNIP]

> > 
> >> IIRC 
> >> there have been some issues in the past... so, unless we are totally
> >> sure, we need to keep the working/stable and old linuxthreads.old.
> > 
> > No, what we do is we keep the 0.9.29 tarball around and if people have bugs 
> > trying to use 0.9.30 they _report_ them to us.  If they want to use the old 
> > threading code, they can use the old version of the library.  If they want 
> > the new features, then they help us find (and fix) the new bugs.
> > 
> It may be a solution... I' don't have the power to drop linuxthrad.old 
> anyway... we need a wider agreement (Mike, Jocke, Bernhard, Bernd..others ?)

Dropping linuxthread.old is fine with me. There isn't enough developers
around to maintain 3 versions, not to mention the confusion 3 versions
will arise. I do think the new linuxthread need to be maintained for
some time.

 Jocke