Run-time NPTL detection

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Thu Oct 16 13:17:53 CDT 2003


Vincent Béron <vberon at mecano.gme.usherb.ca> writes:

> This is a first patch to let Wine run on either an NPTL enabled or not
> system.
>
> The remaining issues deal with linking ntdll to libpthread, and
> autodetection in configure.
>
> It's not production-ready yet, I'm aware that there are a couple rough
> edges (ie, nptl_check passing from libwine to ntdll,
> wine_pthread_init_(process,thread)_no_nptl, what really happens if run
> on a system without NPTL).

It won't work on non-NPTL I'm afraid, you need the pthread wrappers
right from the start, you can't load them dynamically; this requires
using a different wine binary. I'm working on it, but there are still
a couple of architectural issues to solve first.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com




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