libkse -> libpthreads

Geoffrey C. Speicher geoff at speicher.org
Mon Apr 21 16:05:24 PDT 2003


On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Narvi wrote:

> At least for the moment it is not clear that one of teh libraries is a
> winner and will eliminate the other, so it would be evil to force people

What's not clear about it?  libkse is a superset of the functionality
of libthr.  Seems pretty straightforward to me that the long-term
winner is libkse.

> to explicitly link against one or the other causing future compatibility
> problems. Both provide the same pthreads API so there is no reasonable
> case for demanding that one of them can't have its SONAME be
> libpthpread.so.1

Same API, but different capabilities.  The one called pthread should be
the complete one.  No compatability problems in that direction.

Geoff



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