> Do we have a definitive explanation of just how bad the current > wine/pthread incompatibilities are, and/or where current efforts are at? > I'd not known there were any efforts to get wine working with nptl > (hence my perhaps exaggerated alarm) until the link to Ingo's kernel > patch was posted (aug2002 moreover) which suggests at least that some > people *are* working on this (phew). I would be very grateful to know > what the status is. Anyone? TIA.
There are no known current efforts. However I talked to Ulrich today and he said (and I agree) that it will be way easier to implement threading on top of (nptl) pthreads today. Just no one started/did it yet. And we do not need the glibc developers, the ball is in our park ;) Ciao, marcus