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From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Subject: Re: libkse -> libpthreads
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote:

> 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.
>

This assumes that libkse M:N model will provide supperior performance and
scalability, and this is not clear. Or does merely the fact that itis M:N
somehow make it more winning contender?

> > 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
>