On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 11:57 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: [...] > But a different thread library that has clear POSIX compliance bugs[*] > is the kind of things that make me fear that many more packages than we > see currently are broken on kfreebsd. And I'm not sure that it's where > we want to spend our manpower. > > [*] due to linuxthreads: #639658 [kfreebsd] waitpid from a thread does > not work for child processes created by other threads. > there's also some signals+thread fun.
Of course, Linux had those bugs for many years, so most multithreaded programs that run on Linux are probably tolerant of them. Ben.
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