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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