[omniORB] Linuxthreads vs. MIT pthreads ?

[Duncan Grisby]

On Thursday 7 June, Steve Thayer wrote:

> According to the OMNI Thread documentation, it has been implemented to work
> with either Linuxthreads or MIT pthreads, but I was wondering if anyone has
> any real-world experience with these.  Does OMNI Thread take a liking to one
> versus the other?  I need to implement a pthreads library in an embedded
> Linux environment, and I get to choose which one to use.  The main use of
> this library would be just to support OMNI Thread.  So which would work
> better?

These days, glibc and the stock Linux kernels have Linuxthreads
support. Unless you're building a very strange system, you should
automatically have support for that. I'm not sure anyone thinks about
MIT pthreads any more.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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