Re: glibc 2.2 vs 2.3 issue back again

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Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov-nsp@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Roger Leigh <${rleigh}@invalid.whinlatter.ukfsn.org.invalid> writes:
>
>> Well, Linux 2.6 + a recent glibc use NPTL threads, whereas 2.4 will
>> only work with LinuxThreads
>
> The last statement is definitely incorrect:
>
> $ head -1 /etc/issue
> Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
> $ uname -r
> 2.4.20-8smp
> $ ldd /bin/date | grep libc.so.6
> libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x42000000)
> $ /lib/tls/libc.so.6 | grep NPTL
> NPTL 0.29 by Ulrich Drepper
>
> Both RH-9 and RHEL-3 do in fact run with 2.4.x kernel and NPTL
> threads.

That's not a kernel.org kernel is it? Is this a RedHat-specific
thing, or an addition to later 2.4 kernels?


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