On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:05:58PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:51:22PM +0100, Martin Kittel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am maintaining the packages of the MaxDB database system. > > > > Recently upstream has converted the database kernel from > > linuxthread-style threading to NPTL. While -at least for i386- > > linuxthreads is still supported in MaxDB at this time, it will go away > > in one of the next releases. > > What is the problem with linuxthread? Are there some problems > linuxthreads cause that go away when using NPTL? > > Anyway, the package currently only supports i386, so I don't see > a problem with using linuxthread for now. Please make sure that > you then atleast prevent it from using NPTL.
*chokes*
I can only assume you have never done serious thread programming on
LinuxThreads, or never used NPTL, or are unfamiliar with POSIX threads.
But, in one extremely short summary: "Too many to count".
As for MaxDB, I can't comment, except to say that programming for the
two is very different, and I doubt the upstream will care to support
LinuxThreads for longer than they have to if it makes any significant use
of threading.
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