Subject: Re: Enabling Native Pthreads
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/24/2003 13:41:40
In message <87bs11v81t.fsf@snark.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
>
>Soren Jacobsen <devsoren@attbi.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:17:51AM -0300, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:
>> > Is native pthreads enabled by default in -current kernels or are there
>> > an options to do this explicity?
>> 
>> It's enabled by default.
>
>Note that you need a new userland, not just a new kernel... but it is
>enabled by default.
>

And if I'm not mistaken, you have to rebuild any packages that used the 
old thread library.

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