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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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Subject: Re: libkse -> libpthreads
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:

> 
> WE have a small problem.. when we started we had only on  pthreads
> package and libKSE was teh heir..

No, libkse WAS libpthread.  We renamed the library
temporarily until it was proven to work reasonably
well (I did the commit that renamed it).

> now we have to live with libthr in the picture.
> it is possible that we should think of a naming scheme that
> allows all 3 libraries to have meaningful related names
> 
> libc_r -> libpthreadM1
> libthr -> libpthreadMM
> libkse -> libpthreadMN
> 
> or something.

The current naming scheme is fine.  Libc_r is already
a well known name along with its shortcomings.  Solaris
uses libthread for 1:1 as far as I can tell which would
seem to match libthr, and libpthread is the POSIX threads
library whose goal is to support POSIX as fully as
possible (scope process and scope system).

I would object to libpthread{M1,MM,MN}.  We already
had a name for libpthread.  Libthr can live fine as
libthr or libthread.

-- 
Dan Eischen