Guy Maor writes: > The latest pthread library is 1.60 beta4, released on 10/25/95. > Compiled seperately it works moderately well. It's a lot of fun to > play with. You can get more info at > http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/proven/pthreads.html
Actually, I saw two newer versions on the MIT ftp site, beta4_1 and beta5. > Presumably libc 5.3.12 contains the newer version, so when 5.3 > stabilizes and David upgrades, we'll have it. Until then, you might Both libc 5.3.12 and 5.4.1 include pthreads 1.60beta4. I will release libc 5.3.12 or 5.4.x (if it's released) after Debian 1.1 is released. > want to get the pthread source from the above site and compile it > seperately. It compiles out of the box under Linux. I am not familiar with pthreads at all, so I'm not comfortable with deviating from H.J. Lu's version. Unless someone steps forward to package pthreads separately, here is what I propose to do. I will be updating the kernel headers in libc 5.2.18-x to version 2.0.0 whenever Linus releases it. When I do that, I will include H.J.'s pthreads in the libc5 package. I will also have it provide a virtual package called pthreads1. Packages with threaded binaries should depend on pthreads1. This will make it easier to split out pthreads later if we want to. David -- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081