RE: Linux Native Threads

[Alex Pavloff]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Papper [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 3:54 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Linux Native Threads
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I read an article (dated Jan 2003) about "Linux Native Threads". It
> mentioned
> a new implementation for threads on Linux to make then lighter
> weightonization primitives.
> 
> Does anyone know what versions of Linux/Red Hat/g++/glibc has these
> improvements? If the glibc had the improvements, would CommonCPP
> automatically make use the improvements (i.e., or are there new system
> calls)?
> 
> Any info on "this exciting new devleopment" is appreciated.

The new threading library was introduced with Redhat 9.0 with glibc 2.3.
They're not binary compatible with the older Linuxthreads.  That's the main
reason they went straight to 9.0 from 8.0, skipping 8.x.  These new changes
use the same pthreads api, but like you said, are supposed to have much
better performance.  I haven't used them yet, but I suspect that any strange
workarounds that had to be done for Linuxthreads will have to be
reinvestigated.

Alex Pavloff