Bob Ham wrote :
> what's what now; from what I can tell, the pthread thing in glibc is > GNU's POSIX thread implementation but I've also seen "LinuxThreads" > bandied about. Is that another term for glibc's pthreads or a seperate > library or something to do with the kernel, or is it d) something else? > LinuxThreads is indeed another name for GNU's pthreads. It started as an independant project to implement the POSIX threads package for Linux and was later integrated into glibc. I think that the original author has now handled maintenance over the glibc people. For these historical reasons it has kept its original name of "LinuxThreads", thus confusing you. David
