What does "nptl" stand for?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Jan 21 15:14:28 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 15:02, 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.

Bah!, I knew I'd miss *something* 8-)

	Dave





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