new in 2005-7-9 glibc: no more LinuxThreads

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Sun Jul 10 00:42:41 UTC 2005


Mike Hearn wrote:
> Off the top of my head I can think of 3 commercial games which need it
> (games are virtually never updated more than 6 months after release), and
> I have a copy of Domino lying around which needs LT too. I'm sure there
> are plenty of others, the change to NPTL really did break a lot of
> software.
> 
> Most of the old Loki games no longer work, for various reasons, NPTL
> amongst them.

Here is a question.  Will a FC3 chroot running on a FC5+ kernel allow 
apps running inside the chroot to use linuxthreads?  If so then this 
might be a way of running old buggy games?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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