Re: [LIP] NPTL behaviour differences

Arun Sharma <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.india.programmers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:27:17PM +0530, Shantanu Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anybody tried out using NPTL on 2.6 or the patched 2.4 branch that
> came with RH9 onwards? I was wondering what are the behaviour
> differences compared to the "straight" kernel. And whether there's any
> change in API? I heard it breaks some apps.
> 
> Most importantly, what are the caveats or the important points to keep
> in mind while coding with NPTL? Links will be appreciated.

- Signal handling (you can send signals to a whole process now)
- All threads in a process get the same return value for getpid()

http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nptl-design.pdf

	-Arun


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