Geoff Thorpe wrote:
What disturbs me most about this pthread/glibc issue is the (apparent)
impunity with which the glibc maintainer has just barged ahead with this
disruptive change with (again, apparently) little concern for the
fallout it would cause.
I agree the glibc maintainer is headstrong, but in this case he is right. Linux's pthread support needed improving, and the improvements required fundamental changes. I suspect that even if he had gone with ngpt instead of his own nptl, Wine would have suffered similar disruptions.
See http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html#threaded for a little background. In short, my opinion is Wine really should just roll with the punches here. We'll benefit, too, in the end.
Dan - if you want to co-ordinate this and are willing to accommodate my coming to grips with the wine specifics (have you ever contemplated a less precise request for help? :-), please get in touch via private email and I'll do what I can to contribute, investigate, research, hack, whatever.
If I get into this, I'll post on the list. I may not be the right person to coordinate it, since my time is limited, but I'll certainly help according to my abilities. - Dan -- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045
