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Date:      Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:19:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@speicher.org>
To:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: libkse -> libpthreads
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10304211916470.60324-100000@speicher.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030422004324.I29990-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>

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On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Narvi wrote:

> At least for the moment it is not clear that one of teh libraries is a
> winner and will eliminate the other, so it would be evil to force people

What's not clear about it?  libkse is a superset of the functionality
of libthr.  Seems pretty straightforward to me that the long-term
winner is libkse.

> to explicitly link against one or the other causing future compatibility
> problems. Both provide the same pthreads API so there is no reasonable
> case for demanding that one of them can't have its SONAME be
> libpthpread.so.1

Same API, but different capabilities.  The one called pthread should be
the complete one.  No compatability problems in that direction.

Geoff


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