Re: threads package for libc6

1998-10-07 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, pages, the functions may not be thread safe. However I think that if libc6 in hamm supports POSIX threads, then the library functions in there must be thread safe. Any ideas on this from you guys? I don't think it is safe to make this assumption on any system. All I can suggest is to

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-10-05 Thread JonesMB
I have another Linux threads question. Since POSIX threads are already built into the libc6 in hamm, I assume that the standard C libraries are also thread-safe. The guys who are developing on the Linux Debian systems that I built for them have been telling me of some odd things that they

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-08-21 Thread Philip Thiem
JonesMB wrote: Where can I find the threads package for libc6 - I have looked all through the dselect list? All I find is the one for libc5 in the old libs section. Is this the right place for this or should I have asked on the -dev list? We are using Linux (as well as some Solaris

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-08-21 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Where can I find the threads package for libc6 - I have looked all through the dselect list? All I find is the one for libc5 in the old libs section. A specially adapted version of Xavier LeRoy's implementation of kernel-level POSIX threads (pthreads) is already part of libc6. Some

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-08-21 Thread JonesMB
Well that explains why I couldn't find anything. What about the man pages? Which package has those? When the guys do a man on pthread_create nothing is found jmb A specially adapted version of Xavier LeRoy's implementation of kernel-level POSIX threads (pthreads) is already part of libc6.

Re: threads package for libc6

1998-08-21 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Well that explains why I couldn't find anything. What about the man pages? Which package has those? When the guys do a man on pthread_create nothing is found It seems that I didn't have the libc6 man pages either. :) Anyway, I found the docs package. Not surprisingly, it is:

threads package for libc6

1998-08-20 Thread JonesMB
Where can I find the threads package for libc6 - I have looked all through the dselect list? All I find is the one for libc5 in the old libs section. Is this the right place for this or should I have asked on the -dev list? We are using Linux (as well as some Solaris systems) here for C/C