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From: Shridhar Daithankar <[email protected]>
To: Greg Stark <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:07:12 +0530
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Greg Stark wrote:

> Shridhar Daithankar <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> 
>>The little pthreads programming I did on linux/freeBSD tells me that it
>>supports majority of features except TLS(linux2.4/linuxthreads) and per thread
>>signals. 
> 
> 
> LinuxThreads is dead. NPTL is the way and the light.
> 
> It has ELF TLS which for super-fast thread-local storage, proper per-thread
> signal semantics, as well as not using USR1,USR2 in ways that mess up
> signal-handling. It also has kernel support for user-space mutexes (strange as
> that may sound).

Well.. Linuxthreads or NPTL, they are going to conform to pthreads standard 
right? In fact NPTL is supposed to be better conformant than linuxthreads.

  Shridhar

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