status of 0.9.30 release

[Chase Douglas]

> Removing LINUXTHREADS_OLD might be a good idea.  (This still has  
> nothing to do
> with NPTL.)  Having two is silly, and anything that's wrong with the  
> newer
> linuxthreads should be _fixed_ before NPTL goes in.  Eliminating  
> unnecessary
> duplication is always a plus, and removing code where possible is  
> what uClibc
> is all about, really.

Has anyone else tried to compile openssh against the new linuxthreads  
stack? When I tried a few weeks ago it failed to compile auth-pam.c.  
In that file they do some pretty wacky stuff like redefining some of  
the pthread functions. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way  
to get that file to build due to the way the uClibc pthread header  
files are architected. So my suggestion would be to make sure that  
openssh can compile against uClibc with the newer linuxthreads stack  
before contemplating getting right of the older linuxthreads stack.

Also, I posted a patch to rectify a pthread fork mutex issue for  
linuxthreads.old. I am not convinced that the newer linuxthreads stack  
safely deals with the situation either, so porting that patch may be  
wise. It shouldn't take hardly any work to do so as well.

Thanks,
Chase Douglas
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