Re: LinuxThreads future

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>]

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Mark Brown wrote:
> While NPTL is
> the future, many users and developers have invested a lot of time

...and found no severe problem.


> and
> money making things that work with Linuxthreads, and will be depending 
> on it for a while to come.

Nobody takes away existing binaries and the current sources.


There is hardly the possibility for security problems.  No unchecked
arrays exist, no string operations happen etc.  In the entire almost 8
years there hasn't been any such instance.


> but we should  be
> honest and plan for the movement being slow, and not a light-switch.

I am honest which is why I say that I'll not work on that code again.
If it makes you happy I say that severe security problems willbe fixed
but only because I cannot imagine there being any such thing.  I don't
want to weaken the wording more since then people will try to argue what
qualifies as severe.  The current code is it, it's the best LT will be.
 People areliving with it now.  Code which exists today lives with it.
If new code shows problems the way out is to not use LT.

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