On Sunday 24 February 2008 20:15, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Julian Seward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So what's the oldest commonly-used distro that supported NPTL? > > > > > > RH9 is pretty much the first distro to support it isn't it? > > > > Yes. According to Ulrich Drepper "RHL9 was the first with NPTL and > > it served as the basis for RHEL3". > > > > So I'm inclined to declare RHL9 as the new oldest-supported-distro > > for the trunk, which means we can drop support for LinuxThreads, > > gcc < 3.0, and stabs. > > As far as I know there are still RHEL3 setups running, and RHEL3 is > based on the 2.4.21 Linux kernel. So how could RHEL3 include NPTL ?
Because the Red Hat crew backported a bunch of stuff from 2.6 into some of the 2.4s they were distributing, and I think that included NPTL. At least -- that is my impression. J ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Valgrind-developers mailing list Valgrind-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-developers
