cvs commit: src/lib/libpthread Makefile src/lib/libpthread/test sigsuspend_d.c src/lib/libpthread/thread thr_cancel.c thr_concurrency.c thr_create.c thr_find_thread.c thr_init.c thr_kern.c thr_nanosleep.c thr_private.h thr_sig.c thr_sigmask.c ...

[Julian Elischer]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <007101c34cdb$5b2fbd70$f001a8c0 at davidw2k>, "David Xu" writes:
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD.org>
> >To: "Julian Elischer" <julian at elischer.org>
> >Cc: "David Xu" <davidxu at FreeBSD.org>; <src-committers at FreeBSD.org>; <cvs-src at FreeBSD.org>; <cvs-all at FreeBSD.org>
> >Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 9:03 AM
> >Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libpthread Makefile src/lib/libpthread/test sigsuspend_d.c src/lib/libpthread/thread thr_cancel.c thr_concurrency.c thr_create.c thr_find_thread.c thr_init.c thr_kern.c thr_nanosleep.c thr_private.h thr_sig.c thr_sigmask.c ...
> >
> >
> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:15:19PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >> > We'll probably make a libpthread-1:1.so and a libpthread-m:n.so.
> >> 
> >> I like the names -- makes it very clear what is going on.
> >
> >It is better to not use ':' in name, AFAIK,
> >':' is a shell PATH separator, we'd avoid this.
> 
> Seconded, we have had problems with : in filenames before, mostly
> Makefile problems.

It wasn't a specific name but a "meta name"
The names Dan has been thinking of are libthread and libpthread
but I think there could be some name pair that is more expressive
of what is going on than that..

alernatively one library that acts in two different ways..


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