Re: _POSIX_THREADS in <bits/posix_opt.h>

[Barry deFreese]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roland McGrath" <roland@frob.com>
To: "Michael Banck" <mbanck@gmx.net>
Cc: <bug-hurd@gnu.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: _POSIX_THREADS in <bits/posix_opt.h>


> > While reading the patch I noticed that you #defined _POSIX_THREADS to -1
> > in it.  I thought we have a posix thread implementation provided by
> > libpthread, so I am a bit confused.  Is this about something else?
>
> I won't define it until we have a real libpthread implementation that
> interacts correctly with libc and has all the right hairy semantics.
> An extra libpthread that is not integrated with libc will never be a true
> POSIX implementation.

This is going to be a dumb question, but what would that take?

Thanks,

Barry deFreese (aka bddebian)