"Michael C. Richardson" <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> writes:

>   Isn't this in relation to threads in libc?

Yes.

>   If thread friendly libc isn't enough to justify bumping a major
> library version, then what else is? It sounds like we really need to do some
> housekeeping here.

I tend to agree.  There were (seemingly good) reasons for not bumping
the major version of libc -- can someone refresh me as to what they
were again?

--Michael