[KLUG Members] Chicken-egg issues.

[Adam Williams]

> > > And if you think RH9's glibc is hacked up, wait till you try
> > > building
> > Uh, how bad IS RH9's glibc? Is it something one would need to overhaul
> > before building any packages, and how much? Or is this just more
> > hyperbole? *grin*
> I looked at Adam Williams' laptop and saw a lib for LinuxThreads. I
> thought RH 9 used NPTL...?

>From the LinuxThreads site -

"Also note that LinuxThreads is no longer developed and is being
replaced by NPTL, the Native POSIX Threads Library for Linux, which
fixes many shortcomings of LinuxThreads and offers better performance."

The LinuxThreads library is just a legacy thing for applications that
where build on it.  LinuxThreads was never able to do POSIX
signalhandling because it was really just a user-space thing.  NPTL is
in the kernel (ring 0 in the old NT parlance if anyone remembers that :)
and so can do signal handling, etc...