Re: NPTL & Linux kernel 2.4.18

Christian Leber <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.phil
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:12:25PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> I would like to use NPTL thread library with Linux kernel 2.4.18 and gcc
> 3.2.
> Unfortunately, I read on http://lwn.net/Articles/10465 that threading
> capabilities of Linux 2.5.36 is required. Is any kernel patch available to
> workaround this requirment, or is it mandatory for me to update the kernel?

It's mandatory.
But you could probably also use a recent redhat 2.4 kernel,
but I don't know what nptl version is needed.

I would suggest using a recent Redhat Distribution or the most recent
2.6 kernel with a recent nptl version.

Christian Leber

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