On Fri, 14 May 2004, robert w hall wrote:

works OK on playstation2-linux with a 2.2.21 kernel (from xrhino). I haven't tried it on the default (sony) 2.2.1 kernel (kids seem to have deleted it!) - but dimly recollect pthreads is a library not a kernel feature, (so it shouldn't matter???)

POSIX threads is one of "those" complex matters. It depends on several things including the kernel and glibc. To add flavour, Linux comes/came with linux threads, which is close to POSIX but not fully. The New POSIX Threads Library (NPTL) is POSIX compatible, and requires special kernel threading (as of 2.5.36), glibc 2.3 and other bindings (RedHat 9 was going to be the first to provide such environment). Furthermore, there are several different threading libraries among the platforms we support, so go figure! You can read much more than you wanted to know here: http://lwn.net/Articles/10465/ http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nptl-design.pdf As you may have begun to suspect after this short exposition, it's hard to know, and certainly I don't know, whether it will also run with Sony's 2.2.1 kernel! :-) Regards Jorge.-