NTPL & pthreads locks

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On April 8, 2003 08:37 am, Mike Hearn wrote:
> It's not just portability to other forms of unix, it's portability to
> older versions of glibc as well - some Wine users are using for instance
> Xandros which is based on pretty old components now, any
> reimplementation of Wine threading would have to take that into account.

Well, I'm not suggesting we drop support for glibc 2.[012].x systems.
First question is 'Is it possible'? If it is, would we want it? What
are the advantages/disadvantages? Only then can we ask 'Can we do it
in a clean way, without dropping support for the old glibc?'. Can we
do it at runtime or must it be a configure-time thing? And so on...

-- 
Dimi.