epoll, LSB (was: Re: Problem roundup)

[Dan Kegel]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> Bzzt.  In the real world, the distro vendor would have noticed
> this during LSB certification, and since the shared library
> loader for LSB 1.3 is /lib/ld-lsb.so.1 rather than /lib/ld-linux.so.2,
> the vendor can easily force libc to be linuxthreads based even
> if the default libc is NPTL based.

For the record, I checked, and Red Hat 9's lsb-1.3 package
simply made ld-lsb.so.1 a symlink to ld-linux.so.2,
so that version of their lsb environment does seem to use
NPTL.   Probably they figured they'd do something fancier
if they got any complaints, and since nobody was shipping
LSB-1.3 apps, they never had to.

It'll be interesting to see if LSB-2.0 apps actually get
deployed... having an argument about hypothetical pros and
cons is a bit sterile.
- Dan

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