At 06 Feb 2003 17:46:05 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > Let me first say that this is my first attempt at asking something, and > I'm rather unfamiliar with the debian process of packaging glibc. > > I've been trying to write a server programming library that handles > multiple connections in a single thread yet displays this to the > programmer as if it were in a thread. The way to do this is using the > various *context functions, I just swap contexts when in a blocking read > call, and that thread goes off to work on a context that got data. > So much for the theory. > During my tests I found that this is entirely impossible with > linuxthreads. Well, at least so I thought - until some research turned > up the fact that it is possible when FLOATING_STACKS is defined. > > Now here's the real question: why is the debian package not compiled > with it? Is there any specific reason such as incompatibility? > And - as I guess there is a reason and it'll never be enabled in the > debian package - how can I build my own libc package with > FLOATING_STACKS to replace the existing one? I don't like requiring > Redhat or another distribution that ships a library that has floating > stacks enabled.
Is your architecure i386? AFAIK, on i386 FLOATING_STACKS is defined. We don't change such part of upstream glibc. Or do I misunderstand something? Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
