>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org> writes:

    Michael> Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:

    >> What we should do here, instead, is provide those primitives in our
    >> libc, and then make the pthreads package build on top of those!

    Michael> I think that will be fairly difficult, since locks don't exist in a
    Michael> pure vacuum.  They are assiciated with a scheduler, have a list of
    Michael> waiting threads, etc.

  No, I don't agree.  Jason is right here.

  The lock can exist in libc, but until pthreads registers itself with libc
the locking primitives are no-ops.

    Michael> I have a feeling by the time all the bits are split out it would have
    Michael> been simplier to just include pthreads directly into libc.

  I like this idea, but we aren't ready yet.

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