> Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > TLS is thread-local storage. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread-local_storage > > http://people.redhat.com/drepper/tls.pdf
Here's an interesting link on Wikipedia that explains NPTL in laymen's terms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_POSIX_Thread_Library It explains why linux-2.6 (actually, 2.5.40) is needed for NPTL: futexes. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
