[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nelson Minar) writes:
> JG: It's hard to tell when those problems will be resolved. The
> Linux community has got itself into a bit of a pickle. I think they
> could have avoided it, but it's now going to take time, and it'll be
> a painful thing for them. They're going to go from being a bunch of
> hobbyists having a good time to developing mission-critical
> applications. The road may be a little bumpy.
>
> Does anyone have any clue what Gosling is talking about? I guess the
> native threads problems could have something to do with Linux
> versions, but the green threads versions seem awfully portable to me
> and are just fine for most use.
AFAIK he's thinking primarily of the different libc versions on Linux,
and that Linux distributions comes in different configurations, i.e. a
Linux dist. is not really as homogeneous as we like to think it is.
--
Jan-Henrik Haukeland
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