Where is the NPTL kernel patch?

Robert Marcano robert at marcanoonline.com
Tue Dec 2 21:33:21 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 16:52, Michael Gargiullo wrote:
> Silly question.  What does NPTL stand for.

Native POSIX Threading Library

> 
> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 15:28, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> > I need to build a "pristine" kernel for debugging purposes, but I've
> > read that Fedora Core basically won't work with a kernel that doesn't
> > support NPTL.
> > 
> > So where can I find the patch(es) that add NPTL support to the kernel?

Install the kernel*nptl.src.rpm from the Fedora SRPMS directory and
locate the files

linux-*-nptl-A1.patch
linux-*-nptl-exec-shield.patch

on /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES or %_topdir/SOURCES if you have a customized
.rpmmacros file

> > 
> > Thanks!





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