On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote:
> >
> > > > And when are COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS and VM_STACK going away?
> > >
> > > I have no idea. I was hoping that at least COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS
> > > would go away before the branch. I don't have commit authority,
> > > so it isn't up to me.
> > >
> >
> > hmm did you send me the patches?
> >
> > I can certainly do it now..(given a patch set to apply)
> >
> > I just realised however, that if we make them go away we break
> > SMP right?
> > hmm I guess we only break it for programs that woudltry use it
> > which should be none if you run SMP :-)
>
> It doesn't break SMP (I'm running an SMP kernel with
> COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS). All that happens is that linux_clone() returns
> an error. Surprisingly StarOffice still works fairly well.
StarOffice 5.0? Is this with Luoqi's shared process across SMP patches?
>
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