What does "nptl" stand for?

[Steve Wampler]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 08:02, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 
> To be precise, if it finds <= 2.4 kernel without .nptl suffix, FC1 glibc
> issues a dummy syscall when starting every program to find out if that
> kernel supports NPTL.  The .nptl suffix is a magic which helps avoiding this
> syscall.

Hmmm, is there a way for mere mortals to figure out if a (running)
kernel supports NPTL?  (Since checking the suffix isn't sufficient.)

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