Shlomi Fish
Tue, 16 Apr 2002 02:41:07 -0700
>From the Linux getopt(3) manpage: "BUGS:
This manpage is confusing."
Another favourite of mine is the strtok(3) man page:
BUGS: Never use these functions.
And the ironic thing is that sometimes Technion students are instructed to
use it.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002, guy keren wrote about "[Haifux] user-level threads: Signal
>Handler (fwd)":
> > so i guess anyone interested in seeing user-level threads implemented in
> > linux should look for the above two things on google, or just:
> >
> > GNU pth (http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/) <-- NON-preemptive threads.
>
> Also take a look at
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/pthreads/
>
> Which is "The Next Generation POSIX Threading Project is a derivative of the
> excellent package GNU Pth.". According to them, "This version achieves near
> full POSIX compliance.", so it is probably preemptive, not cooperative,
> threading. They also say, "The goal of this project is to attempt to solve
> the problems associated with the use of the pthreads library on Linux. It
> will add M:N threading capability and improve significantly on the POSIX
> compliance of pthreads on Linux.".
> Apparently NGPT needs a kernel patch that is already included in kernels
> 2.4.17, 2.5.4 or newer.
>
>
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