[Aurora-sparc-user] aurora 2.0 - pthreads on Aurora

Ian Kent raven at themaw.net
Mon Nov 6 02:52:02 EST 2006


On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 22:11 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Sunday 05 November 2006 21:53, Ian Kent wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is pthreads available on Aurora 2.0?
> >
> > When I run autofs I end up with what looks like processes.
> > They don't seem to behave quite like a thread is supposed to.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > Ian
> nptl is only available if you have glibc.sparcv9  otherwise  you have the old  
> linuxthreads.  to test your threading model run 
> 
> getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION

[root at donald ~]# getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION
linuxthreads-0.10

> 
> you should see something like
> NPTL 2.3.6
> 
> if you have glibc.sparc installed  you will get something telling you the 
> version of LinuxThreads you are running
> 
> corona  has NPTL on all glibc's

So it's a full upgrade to Corona then.
Is that likely to work or is Corona too much in flux to be practical?

Ian




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