On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Will Newton wrote:

>>>> LINUXTHREADS_OLD:
>>>>
>>>>  Ok, what does this currently mean?  This selects the old libpthreads
>>>>  implementation from the dawn of time, but what's the alternative?  The
>>>> new NPTL stuff hasn't been merged yet, so this intermediate version is...
>>>> what?
>>>
>>> OLD means the old version. !OLD is something newer. !UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS
>>> is what i do and the rest is a myth.
>>
>> OLD works now.  In theory NPTL might be made to work someday.  The one in
>> between doesn't seem to work and nobody's actually trying to improve it; does
>> it have a reason for still being there?  (Is somebody, anywhere, successfully
>> using it for anything?)
>
> Yes, I use it and it works.

Any idea what is wrong with the !old version, in that it seems not to be 
recommended for use?

/Ricard
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