From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 16:05:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1630A37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:05:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from speicher.org (sirius.speicher.org [209.74.10.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6BC043FBD for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:05:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoff@speicher.org) Received: from localhost (geoff@localhost) by speicher.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h3LNJdR60326; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:19:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from geoff@speicher.org) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:19:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" To: Narvi In-Reply-To: <20030422004324.I29990-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: threads@freebsd.org cc: Daniel Eischen cc: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: libkse -> libpthreads X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:05:24 -0000 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