Do we plan to get rid of LinuxThreads support anytime soon?

Thomas Stüfe thomas.stuefe at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 12:25:01 UTC 2015


:-) ok then. We will clean this up.

..Thomas

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Staffan Larsen <staffan.larsen at oracle.com>
wrote:

> I don’t think there is any reason to keep the LinuxThreads code anymore.
> It would be a welcome cleanup.
>
> /Staffan
>
>
> > On 23 apr 2015, at 14:15, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How long do we plan to continue support for LinuxThreads (vs NPTL) Linux
> > variants? There would be some coding in os/linux which could be thrown
> away
> > if we stopped supporting LinuxThreads.
> >
> > If we do not get rid of it: does Oracle still run tests on Linux variants
> > which use LinuxThreads?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Regards, Thomas
>
>


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