Dear All, I am using Debian/Sid on a new Apple PowerBook 12" 1.33GHz (ppc). kernel is (self compiled) 2.6.7-rc2 with latest pmdisk patches (but the suspend to disk don't really work).
It is my impression that the current libc & libc-dev 2.3.2.ds1-13 are using the new NPTL (Native POSIX Threading Library, initially by Ulrich Drepper) for threading (instead of old LinuxThreads, initially by Xavier Leroy). Actually, I believe that glibc >= 2.3 is NPTL based, but I am not fully sure of this. I don't have any man pages (in english) for pthread_kill, which is briefly mentionned in libc-doc. Bizarrely, manpges-fr from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/manpages-fr seems to contain a french translation of such a man page. Can threads throw *reliably* signals from one thread to another? I am considering using it for a multi-threaded garbage collector (which obviously would have some system & plateform specific parts). What is NPTL status w.r.t libc? I did google, but did not found really clear results.... (it seems that libc 2.3.2 has NPTL, but I am not sure)? Regards. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net aliases: basile<at>tunes<dot>org = bstarynk<at>nerim<dot>net 8, rue de la Fa�encerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France
