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From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux Threads patches available
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On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:57:35 -0800 (PST), Archie Cobbs wrote:
> > 
> [patches described]
> 
> The kernel components of this are very self contained and will not 
> jeapardise other sytem code..
> I would like to extract them and check them in to assist testing, and 
> to make such things as star-office 3.0 to run "out of the box"
> 
> Anyone have any objections?
> 
> julian

For one, I object. Keep it as a patchset, or make a vendor branch, but
the overhead and memory use of these modifications needs to be considered
carefully! I know I did much of the LinuxThreads work, and would love to see
it going into the kernel, but the ramifications need to be examined.

> >
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