Re: Runtime detection of old Linux threads vs NPTL

Roland McGrath <[email protected]> Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:50:29 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.phil
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I would like to detect at runtime if I am using the old Linux threads or
> the new POSIX threads. My application needs to run in both worlds and
> since signal handling has changed we need to configure the application
> correctly.

You can use confstr (_CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION).