| From: | Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [pgsql-www] NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows |
| Date: | 2003-09-26 06:37:12 |
| Message-ID: | 3F73DE98.2080601@persistent.co.in |
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Greg Stark wrote:
> Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in> 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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