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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 leafy@leafy.idv.tw wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 15:06:30 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Eischen wrote
> > Umm, what are you talking about?  Both libkse and libthr
> > implement POSIX threads interfaces.  Your code doesn't
> > have to change; you just link to libkse (-lkse) or
> > libthr (-lthr).  When you compile on Linux, you link
> > to linuxthreads (-lwhatever).  You are not running
> > a FreeBSD binary on Linux, nor running a Linux binary
> > on FreeBSD, right?
> Or even better, use libmap.conf and the app can be tested with different 
> libraries in just one snap.

You probably won't be able to do that to switch between
linuxthreads and libthr/libkse/libc_r.  Linuxthreads
and the FreeBSD thread libraries are most likely not
binary compatable.

-- 
Dan Eischen