Do we plan to get rid of LinuxThreads support anytime soon? (original) (raw)

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Thu Apr 23 12:34:50 UTC 2015

On 23/04/2015 10:15 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:

Hi all,

How long do we plan to continue support for LinuxThreads (vs NPTL) Linux variants? There would be some coding in os/linux which could be thrown away if we stopped supporting LinuxThreads. If we do not get rid of it: does Oracle still run tests on Linux variants which use LinuxThreads?

LinuxThreads is "dead". We do not support it at all and have not for a long time. IIRC some LinuxThreads code has been removed in places when other changes have occurred. There was a big clean up of this slated but I don't know what happened to it - I guess adding new features took priority. :(

David

Thanks!

Regards, Thomas

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